scholarly journals Ethical Conduct of Public Servants

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (71) ◽  
pp. 725-736
Author(s):  
Anatolii Anatoliiovych Rusetskyi ◽  
Yevhen Yuriyovych Podorozhnii ◽  
Andrii Tanko ◽  
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Frolov
Keyword(s):  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Ethical Conduct ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Advanced Training ◽  
Narrow Sense ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Training Requirements ◽  
The World ◽  
Conflicting Interests

The objective of the investigation was to examine the content and specific characteristics of the ethical conduct of public officials in Ukraine and the world. To achieve the objective, the authors used the following methods: epistemological, comparative-legal, structural-functional, analytical, informative-analytical. Among the results of the article, it was possible to consider the ethical conduct of public servants in a broad and narrow sense. In the same way, the main requirements of the legislation that regulate the conduct of public servants have been analyzed and the conditions that standardize in detail the legal relationships in the field of professional activity of public servants, their relationships with each other and with citizens. Finally, everything allows us to conclude that a Code of Ethics for public servants establishes common rules of conduct for them and determines responsibility for their violation. To be effective, this regulatory legal act must also include the following obligations for public servants: requirements for the performance of official functions; requirements for advanced training; requirements for relationships with colleagues, managers, and subordinates; norms of communication with citizens and norms to resolve conflicting interests.

scholarly journals Legal basis for ethical behavior of civil servants in Ukraine: some problematic issues

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (68) ◽  
pp. 882-895
Author(s):  
Zvarych Roman Vasylovych ◽  
Havretska Maryna Yosypivna ◽  
Andrukhiv Oleh Ihorovych ◽  
Kaleniuk Oksana Mykolayivna ◽  
Boiko Ihor Yosypovych
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Behavior ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Ethical Conduct ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
The Subject

The objective of the article is to consider the legal basis for regulating the rules of ethical conduct of civil servants in Ukraine and, at the same time, to compare them with the relevant legislative framework of other countries. The subject of the study is the analysis of the legal basis for regulating the rules of ethical conduct of public officials in Ukraine. The research methodology includes the following methods: normative and dogmatic method, hermeneutic method, method of analysis and synthesis, dialectical method, legal and comparative method, legal modeling method. It is concluded that there is only one special legal act to regulate the ethics of public officials in Ukraine, but it is not binding, as it does not have the appropriate legal means of influence. Practical involvement. Based on international experience, it was concluded that Ukraine should adopt its own Code of Ethics for public officials.

The positive side of community interpreting

Interpreting ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Beatriz Hale
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Negative Side ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
The World ◽  
Australian Community ◽  
Formally Trained ◽  
Different Parts

Highlighting the negative aspects of a professional activity can be beneficial in identifying matters that need improvement. However, concentrating on the negative side only may lead to a lopsided view of reality. Much of what has been written regarding community interpreting in recent years seems to portray a less than favourable picture of this professional practice in different parts of the world. This paper will present the results of a survey of Australian practising community interpreters who were asked to share positive aspects of their work. The survey concentrated on five main issues which have been debated in recent studies: the interpreters’ satisfaction with their prescribed role, their perceptions of the usefulness of the code of ethics, their evaluations of the training they had received, their impressions of how they were treated by their clients and their reasons for choosing to work as community interpreters. While the findings cannot be regarded as representative, they provide an encouraging picture of the experiences of formally trained Australian community interpreters, who find their work valuable and rewarding and feel they are duly respected as professionals by service providers and service recipients alike.

A comprehensive approach to the formation of anti-corruption behavior of the internal affairs bodies employees in the professional development system

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-217
Author(s):  
Oksana Mironkina
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Comprehensive Approach ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Advanced Training ◽  
Basic Training ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
Internal Affairs ◽  
Corruption Prevention

Methods of training in advanced training groups formed from the staff of personnel divisions of the MIA of Russia, which involve the use of anti-corruption education at different stages of professional activity are discussed in the article. A comprehensive approach to the formation of anti-corruption behavior, which allows using various forms of training of police officers in their relation is described. The effectiveness of this approach in the system of professional development was shown. A comprehensive approach allows the training process to pay attention to the needs and difficulties in the field of corruption prevention without spending time on basic training information. Several stages in the organization and content of training are considered. Each of them corresponds to different stages of professional development of specialists of personnel divisions of internal affairs bodies. Described in detail every stage is aimed at a separate audience and has its own value. The possibilities of anti-corruption education are presented, starting with the selection of personnel for service in the internal affairs bodies and ending with the preparation for dismissal. The anti-corruption educational activities carried out at the present time are analyzed. Methods of intensifying each of them and the possibilities of optimal inclusion in the developed complex of content and forms are determined. The proposed approach can be used for majority posts. It is not limited to human resources units. In addition, the developed methodological material can be used by students in the course of their professional activities in the field after studying at advanced training courses.

Sherry C. M. Lindquist and Asa Simon Mittman. With a Preface by China Miéville, Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders. New York: The Morgan Library & Museum, 2018, 175 pp., more than 90 colored ill.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 284-284
Author(s):  
Albrecht Classen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Femme Fatale ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Narrow Sense ◽  
The World ◽  
Evil Spirits ◽  
Morgan Library ◽  
Illustrated Book

This wonderfully illustrated book accompanied an exhibition that took place at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, from June 8 to September 23, 2018, authored by two well established and respected art historian*s, who provide us with a sweeping view of the world of monsters and many other related creatures in medieval fantasy. While previous research mostly focused on monsters in the narrow sense of the word, i.e., grotesque and oversized human-like creatures normally threatening ordinary people in their existence, Lindquist and Mittman pursue a much broader perspective and incorporate also many other features in human imagination, including wonders, aliens, Jews, Muslims, strangers in general, the femme fatale, sirens, undines, mermaids (but there is no reference to the Melusine figure, though she would fit much better into the general framework), devils, and evil spirits. However, I do not understand why ‘gargoyles’ have been left out here. This vast approach allows them also to address the beasts from the Physiologus tradition, then natural wonders, giants, and then, quite surprisingly, religious scenes in psalters (148), depictions of nobles playing chess (150; where are the wild men alleged surrounding the players?), the whore of Babylon (153), figures from the Apocalypse, and anything else that smacks of wonder.

A Cosmopolitan Legal Order

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alec Stone Sweet ◽  
Clare Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Legal Order ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Constitutional Theory ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Perpetual Peace ◽  
The World ◽  
European System ◽  
Constitutional Justice

The book provides an introduction to Kantian constitutional theory and the European system of rights protection. Part I sets out Kant’s blueprint for achieving Perpetual Peace and constitutional justice within and beyond the nation state. Part II applies these ideas to explain the gradual constitutionalization of a Cosmopolitan Legal Order: a transnational legal system in which justiciable rights are held by individuals; where public officials bear the obligation to fulfil the fundamental rights of all who come within the scope of their jurisdiction; and where domestic and transnational judges supervise how officials act. The authors then describe and assess the European Court’s progressivie approach to both the absolute and qualified rights. Today, the Court is the most active and important rights-protecting court in the world, its jurisprudence a catalyst for the construction of a cosmopolitan constitution in Europe and beyond.

New protests in Chile

1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 17-19
Author(s):  
Malcolm Coad
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Unemployment Rate ◽  
Foreign Debt ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
The Public ◽  
Economic Miracle ◽  
The World ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
National Trade ◽  
The Church

Chile's military regime in 1982 celebrated its ninth anniversary to the accompaniment of the most widespread and publicly expressed opposition since the coup of 11 September 1973. The collapse of its much-vaunted ‘economic miracle’ … most painfully demonstrated by devastated national industries, an unemployment rate of 25%, and a foreign debt estimated by some economists as the highest per capita in the world … has brought criticism from even the most ardent supporters of General Pinochet. As legal labour representatives became more vocal, leaders of the largest union federation, the National Trade Union Co-ordinating Body (CNS), were jailed, while in February the outspoken President of the Public Servants Union, Tucapel Jimenez, was found dead and mutilated by a roadside near Santiago. In the first six months of this year 837 people were charged with political offences, an increase of more than a third over the same period in 1981, while thousands more were detained on suspicion and reports of torture increased. Relations between the regime and the Church worsened, despite the latter's reining in of some of its human rights activity.

How corruption investigations undermine regime support: evidence from China

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Yuhua Wang ◽  
Bruce J. Dickson
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Regime Support ◽  
Support Evidence

Abstract Authoritarian leaders around the world often fight against corruption in an effort to win public support. Conventional wisdom holds that this strategy works because leaders can signal their benevolent intentions by removing corrupt officials. We argue that fighting against corruption can undermine regime support. By revealing scandals of corrupt officials, corruption investigations can alter citizens' beliefs about public officials and lead to disenchantment about political institutions. We test this argument by examining how China's current anti-corruption campaign has changed citizens' public support for the government and the Communist Party. We analyze the results of two original surveys conducted before and during the campaign, and employ a difference-in-differences strategy to show that corruption investigations, at the margin, suppress respondents' support for the central government and party. We also examine our respondents' prior and posterior beliefs, and the results support our updating mechanism.

Formalizing Secularism as a Regime of Restrictions and Protections: The Case of Quebec (Canada) and Geneva (Switzerland)

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-302
Author(s):  
Amélie Barras
Keyword(s):  
Religious Practices ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Minority Religions ◽  
The World ◽  
Regulatory Regimes ◽  
Context Specific

AbstractIn 2019, the province of Quebec and the canton of Geneva passed bills establishing their states as “secular.” While each law is, to a certain extent, context specific, both present noteworthy similarities. First, neutrality (the cornerstone of laïcité) is articulated around two elements: (1) restrictions that affect the religious practices of public servants belonging to minority religions and (2) protections for Christian symbols constructed as “cultural.” The article questions the implications for inclusive citizenship of formalizing regulatory regimes that differentiate between “religion” and “culture.” Second, a comparative lens enables an analysis of how, through whom, and why similar regimes of regulation travel from one area of the world to another. The article argues for the importance of considering transnational influences when analyzing the regulation of religion to better (1) understand why particular models of secularism gain traction and (2) capture power dynamics structuring these processes of traction.

scholarly journals INTERNATIONAL TRENDS IN THE REGULATION OF PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES OF ACCOUNTANTS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Metelytsya
Keyword(s):  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Transfer Pricing ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Business Development ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Financial Indicators ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
International Trends ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World

The regulation of the professional activities of accountants either promotes business development, the migration of financial and human capital, or complicates this process. Many firms with global interests may already be feeling the burden of complex and ever-changing regulations issued at domestic and international level. It is expected that some regions of the world are likely to face far more regulation of financial activities, including accounting. The purpose of the article is to analyze the latest changes in the regulation of the professional activity of accountants caused by the transformations of the global economic system, as well as to identify and assess the challenges that accountants around the world will face in the coming years. The tendencies in the field of regulation of professional activity of accountants in Europe, USA, Australia, Asia were revealed, and the factors (reasons) of their development were determined. In particular, in Europe, there are growing calls for more regulation in finance and “fairness” in tax especially when it comes to taxing digital corporations, whereas in the US, things are moving in the opposite direction, with less regulation to encourage growth. Across the Asian region, banking and corporate regulation is becoming more stringent and the expectations of revenue authorities around issues such as transfer pricing documentation are increasing. It has been determined that the existence of accounting standards and rules as such does not guarantee reliable and appropriate financial indicators, and therefore the role and importance of professional ethics increases. Three key areas of change and challenges for the accounting profession that will take place in the coming years were assessed. It has been proven that the goal of strengthening regulation around the world is to solve socio-economic and environmental problems. It is important for accountants to realize that such events should develop motivation not to manipulate numbers, as well as ensure the introduction of a system of fair taxation and elimination of abuses by the subjects of the digital economy. So, all over the world there is a real need to educate accountants on the changing global regulatory framework.

scholarly journals Support and Resistance of Public Officials Towards Current eGovernment Initiatives – A Case Study on Ukraine and Germany

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2021) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Florian Lemke ◽  
Konstantin Ehrhardt ◽  
Olha Popelyshyn
Keyword(s):  
Transformative Change ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
New Public ◽  
Recommendations For Action ◽  
Public Sector Employees ◽  
Educational Programmes ◽  
Survey Responses

This article provides insights on how German and Ukrainian public sector employees perceive and position themselves towards current eGovernment initiatives. After presenting the academic literature on the roles of individual public servants in transformative change processes in public administration, the eGovernment approaches followed by Germany and Ukraine are explained. The results of a survey (n = 74) conducted among public servants in both countries provide information on their perceived contribution to and participation in the digitisation of government service delivery, as well as reasons and causes for motivation or frustration in this context. By analysing the survey responses and identifying potential impediments of successful eGovernment implementation, the authors provide recommendations for action for executives that drive digital transformation, such as organising tool-specific training and Single Points of Contact for employees after introducing new processes and software, adjusting educational programmes for new public servants, and establishing a feedback and knowledge-sharing culture when creating new e-services.

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