Limits of Anti-Corruption Ethical Regulation of State and Municipal Service
Unethical actions of officials that cause a wide public response have a negative impact on the image and authority of the state authorities. Therefore, the state is interested in having ethically motivated individuals among its officials. The concept of anti-corruption ethics is more focused not on sanctioning unethical actions, but on establishing positive rules of behavior, the observance of which allows you to “be ethical”. In this regard, the researchers face two significant questions: how to prescribe ethical behavior in regulatory legal and other acts and how to assess the ethics of actions (inaction) of an official? The article considers the legal and institutional framework for regulating anti-corruption ethical requirements imposed on officials. Based on the analysis of judicial practice, the most common situations associated with unethical behavior of officials are identified. The authors concluded that it is necessary to take the following comprehensive measures aimed at minimizing situations of unethical behavior on the part of officials: training officials in anti-corruption ethics; improving codes of ethics and official conduct; preparing new methodological materials containing specific examples of ethical and unethical behavior; conducting educational activities with officials. Practical proposals were also developed for the formation of a platform for ethical anticorruption consulting, as well as for improving the work of commissions on compliance with the requirements for official behavior and resolving conflicts of interest, and other measures.