The integrity branch: a 'system', an 'industry', or a sensible emerging fourth arm of government?
Author(s)
Brown, AJ
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2014
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The integrity branch of government consists of those permanent institutions, established with a degree of political independence under a Constitution or by statute, whose function is solely or primarily to ensure that other governmental institutions and officials exercise the powers conferred on them for the purposes for which they were conferred, and in the manner expected of them, consistent with both the legal and wider precepts of integrity and accountability which are increasingly recognised as fundamental to good governance in modern liberal democracies.The integrity branch of government consists of those permanent institutions, established with a degree of political independence under a Constitution or by statute, whose function is solely or primarily to ensure that other governmental institutions and officials exercise the powers conferred on them for the purposes for which they were conferred, and in the manner expected of them, consistent with both the legal and wider precepts of integrity and accountability which are increasingly recognised as fundamental to good governance in modern liberal democracies.
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Book Title
Modern Administrative Law in Australia: Concepts and Context
Subject
Political science not elsewhere classified