Can virtue be regulated? an examination of the EARC proposals for a code of conduct for public officials in Queensland
- 5(4), Dec 1992, p.410-15
This paper reviews the proposed code of conduct and accompanying ethics regime under consideration for the public sector in Queensland. While noting the limitations of codes of conduct, it examines the proposition that ethics regulation has the potential to enhance good government, concluding that it has under certain conditions. It can vasses the need to give priority to regime, considers some implications for ethical theory about codes, and includes a prognosis for the Queensland initiative with its converging objectives of regulating and nurturing virtue in public officer
Electoral and Administrative Review Commission Report -- Queensland Ethics Public Officials -- Queensland