Conflict of Interest and Public Life: Cross-National Perspectives

This volume features a distinguished, international group of scholars and practitioners who provide a comparative account of ethics regulations across four Western democracies: the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy. They situate conflict-of-interest regulations within a broader discourse involving democratic theory; identify the structural, political, economic, and cultural factors that have contributed to the development of these regulations over time; and assess the extent to which these efforts have succeeded or failed across and within different branches and systems of government. Collectively, they provide an invaluable survey of the development, function, and impact of conflict-of-interest regimes in public life.

• Cross-national comparative analysis of conflict of interest and public life in the UK, US, Canada, and Italy • Contributors are an interdisciplinary and distinguished group of legal scholars, political scientists and practitioners from the UK, US, Canada and Italy • Consists of two parts; theoretical framework; and empirical chapters that offer case studies of conflict of interest in 4 western democracies.