Towards a Federal Integrity Commission: The Challenge of Institutional Capacity-Building in Australia

A. J. Brown

doi:10.4324/9781315245867-19

Towards a Federal Integrity Commission: The Challenge of Institutional Capacity-Building in Australia

A. J. Brown^*

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Abstract

How can society be satised that any government has established the right institutions to safeguard public integrity? Even if those institutions exist on paper, when can citizens be condent these bodies have been given the capacity to do their job properly? As shown by preceding chapters, these questions are basic to the methods used to assess the state of any government’s ‘integrity system’, and the political judgements about the adequacy of that system reached as a result. They are also basic to the decisions that have to be made by any government as to whether their integrity institutions are adequate for the task, and if not, how developments in those institutions should be designed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Promoting Integrity
Subtitle of host publication	Evaluating and Improving Public Institutions
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	169-196
Number of pages	28
ISBN (Electronic)	9781351908337
ISBN (Print)	9780754649861
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315245867-19
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2017

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