About the New Revolving Door
Confidence in government and particularly in government regulation
is compromised whenever the independence of those making decisions,
including those empowered to regulate, is called into question.
Despite the existence of ethics laws, codes and regulations,
movements of personnel between the "private sector"
(industry) and "government" raise concern in some quarters
about potential conflicts of interest.
This database includes information about people who have worked
in both the public and the private sector. The information has
been gathered over a period of years and most recently was considerably
augmented by the researchers of the Public Information Network.
The database is a work-in-progress, neither comprehensive nor
complete. Inclusion in the database is not meant to imply any
impropriety. Lack of inclusion in the database implies nothing
at all. We continue to do research.
Citations for the information are provided on each page. Much
of the data comes from websites, and thus citations may become
outdated. We welcome corrections and suggestions for improvement.
(Write beb@igc.org or click
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to enter your suggestions.
Please note: It was our intention to update and expand this database
over time so that researchers in any part of the world could
access information about those in government or those advising
government. Unfortunately, in the current regulatory and administrative
climate, by the beginning of 2006, we found that we could not
keep up with the ever-increasing volume of names of those who
apparently had gone through the revolving employment door between
industry and government regulatory agencies. Although we continue
to receive and process suggestions for new names, we have stopped
adding new entries to the online database. Until further notice,
this database should be considered incomplete and outdated.For
a more up-to-date database on the Revolving Door, check out the
Center for Responsive Politics site at <http://www.crp.org/revolving/index.asp>.
Click
here to begin.
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