The article is devoted to the study of values and ethical standards of activity of civil servants of the Western countries and to clarifying the mechanisms that ensure their compliance. The article analyzes the provisions of international legal acts, which enshrine key principles and ethical standards of conduct of civil servants, in particular, the International Code of Conduct for Public Officials, the Model Code of Conduct for Civil Servants, in particular in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Kingdom of Denmark, the Italian Republic, the Republic of Poland, the French Republic, the Czech Republic, the United States of America, Canada. On the basis of the analyzed legal acts the system of the basic values, principles and ethical standards of civil servants of the States investigated by us is outlined and it is determined that the ethical standards of civil servants these are the unified norms and principles enshrined in normative legal acts and documents of international significance, principles that, with the help of evaluative and rather abstract concepts, fix the desired model of behavior of civil servants. Ethical norms of civil servants are enshrined in relevant special acts, the names of which may differ in different countries, but the set of values and principles set out in them mostly coincide, and therefore, it can be argued that certain ethical standards of public administration are formed, at least in States of the Western world. Functioning of the system of special bodies authorized to monitor and control compliance civil servants ethical norms and requirements of anti-corruption legislation are an important mechanism designed to ensure compliance with ethical standards by civil servants.
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