The regulation of ethics in the public service in Panama, between lights and shadows La regulación de la ética en la función pública en Panamá, entre luces y sombras

Abstract

It is addressed since the construction of the civil service in the United Kingdom, the recommendations of the Nolan Report on public ethics, as well as the Nadal report in France, the Code of Values in Canada, and the Code of Ethics and Good Management of the Public Employment. They mark the need to strengthen ethics in the public function, thus providing the approval of the Code of Ethics or Conduct of the Public Employee, which, according to the author, affects the new elements of modernity in public management.