「政治倫理」の視点と改正案 (<シンポジゥム>「政治倫理 : その法的政治的課題」)

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More than 20 drafts on the law amendment on political ethics have been presented to the Japanese Diet until now. Yet they remain not discussed in the Diet. Parties are eager to express their concern on political ehics, however, some differences lie between the drafts by various parties: to what extent informaton about political activities is disclosed; whether a politician is punished when acting as a middleman or not; whether political contributions from companies and organizations are prohibited or not. Political ehics ofren becomes a subject of mass media and is concerned with people. Then what on earth is the "political ehics"? What do they expect of politics when people refer to it? According to some past opinion polls of the Asahi Shinbun and the Yomiuri Shinbun, people generally expect (1) politicians to be definitely "clean." (2) prime minister to be "resolute" rather than "clean" and (3) does not necessarily expect the government to think "political ethics" high priority. I think that the "political ethics" is (1) not to violate laws and criteria, (2) to protect morals and (3) to concentrate on their business as politicians. Besides, people are also responsible for the "political ehtics." There would be no democracy if they do neither join a party, make private political eontributons nor involve themselves voluntarily in politics.