May 1, 2001
Ethics in Government:
A Half-Century of CBS News Coverage

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Articles
Gest, Ted. "Is federal ethics law really working? [Ethics in Government Act, 1978]." U.S. News and World Report, Dec 21, 1981, 53. 
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Thompson, Dennis F. "The possibility of administrative ethics." Public Administration Review 45, Sept/Oct (1985): 555-561. 
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Amato, Carol. "Ethics and the public official." Public Management 70, April (1988): 26-27. 
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Jennings, Bruce. "Ethical politics vs. political ethics: too much of a good thing?" The Journal of State Government 62, Sept/Oct (1989): 173-175.
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Josephson, Michael S. "Traversing the mine field of public service ethics." The Journal of State Government 62, Sept/Oct (1989): 185-188. 
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Dobel, J. Patrick. "Integrity in the public service." Public Administration Review 50, May/June (1990): 354-366. 
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Dennard, Linda. "Recognizing the right thing to do: review article." Public Administration Review 51, Sept/Oct (1991): 451-453. 
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Thompson, Dennis F. "Paradoxes of government ethics." Public Administration Review 52, May/June (1992): 254-259. 
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Carey, James W. "The mass media and democracy: between the modern and the postmodern." Journal of International Affairs 47, no. 1 (1993): 1-21. 
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Part of an issue titled: "Power of the Media of the Global System"

Grunig, James E. "Public relations and international affairs." Journal of International Affairs 47, no. 1 (1993): 137-162. 
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Herman, Edward S. "Media's role in U.S. foreign policy." Journal of International Affairs 47, no. 1 (1993): 23-45. 
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Thompson, Dennis F. "Mediated corruption: the case of the Keating Five." American Political Science Review 87, no. 2 (1993): 369-381. 
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Mann, Thomas E., and Norman J. Ornstein. "Shipshape? A progress report on congressional reform." Brookings Review 12, no. 2 (1994): 41-45.
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"Ethics in American public service." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 537, Jan. (1995): 9-183. 
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A special section on ethics in American public service. Articles: Ethics in American government: a look backward -- Ethics and public service -- Ethics and public administrator -- The evolving watchdog: the media's role in government ethics -- Educating public administrators about ethics -- Enforcing administrative ethics -- 150-162? -- Public perceptions of ethics in government -- Public sector ethics in comparative perspective

Francke, Warren. "The evolving watchdog: the media's role in government ethics." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 537, no. Jan. (1995): 109-121. 
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Carney, Eliza Newlin. "Uneasy umpires [duty on congressional Ethics Committees]." National Journal, May 18, 1996, 1099-1103. 
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Bowman, James B., and Russell L. Williams. "Ethics in government: from a winter of despair to a spring of hope." Public Administration Review 57, Nov/Dec (1997): 517-526. 
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Washington, Sally. "Managing government ethics." OECD Observer 204, Feb/Mar (1997): 15-17. 
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Coleman, Stephen. "Can the new media invigorate democracy?" Political Quarterly 70, no. 1 (1999): 16-22. 
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Niven, David. "Partisan bias in the media? A new test." Social Science Quarterly 80, no. 4 (1999): 847-857. 
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Olson, Theodore B. "Father confessor to the president's men." The American Spectator 32, no. 9 (1999): 26-29+. 
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Adkins-Covert, Tawnya, Denise P. Ferguson, Selene Phillips, and Philo C. Washburn. "News in by backyard: media and democracy in an "All American" city." Sociological Quarterly 41, no. 2 (2000): 227-244.
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Maletz, Donald J., and Jerry Herbel. "Beyond idealism: democracy and ethics reform." American Review of public Administration 30, no. 1 (2000): 19-45.
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Pope, Jeremy, and Frank Vogl. "Making anticorruption agencies more effective." Finance & Development 37, no. 2 (2000): 6-9. 
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Schmuhl, Robert. "Presidential perplexity: what's public? What's private?" Society 38, no. 1 (2000): 96-102. 
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Websites
CBS (including links to "60 Minutes II" and "CBS News")

United States Office of Government Ethics (executive branch)

United States Congress House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct
     no website available for the Senate

Judicial Conference Committee on Codes of Conduct (judicial branch)
     no website, but some information available through
     Federal Judiciary Homepage

List of U.S. Government Entities with Ethics/Conduct-Related Authority

Mary Jane Walsh
09/10/2009