ABSTRACT
Introduction A rules-based (“low road”) approach to developing and maintaining standards of ethical probity in government assumes that those who work for government cannot always, if ever, be trusted to conduct themselves honestly and fairly, and that they must be induced or coerced to comply with the authority that is embedded in hierarchically and vertically imposed laws, rules and regulations. On the other hand, an integrity-based (“high road”) method is founded on the premise that the moral character of those who work in government service is a more important determinant of honest, fair, impartial, and non-corrupt government.1
