POLS 3440 Chapter Notes -Influence Peddling

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3440
• Professor: Geoff Stevens

Document Summary

Conflict of interest is situation in which a public official, employee, or a professional, has a private or personal interest sufficient to appear to influence the objective exercise of their official duties. Trust is at the ethical heart of the issue: coi involve abuse of the trust people have in professionals. True test: would relevant others trust my judgment if they knew i was in this situation. Second way to avoid coi is to absent oneself from decision making or advice giving if you have a private interest. Mulroney gathered a group of influential conservatives together the night before gaining office to discuss patronage. In recent years traditional reflections partisan, religious, linguistic and regional interests have had to incorporate women, native peoples, young and old. Liberals never underestimated importance of patronage and mulroney intended to follow suit in an attempt to widen the conservatives" political appeal. Mulroney had observed how the liberals used patronage.