corruptionpunishment and rewardI present a model of corruption with incomplete information where the bureaucrat may request a bribe from the citizen for providing a service. I show that corruption is detrimental to social welfare and consider a new policy to prevent it. I propose punishing ...
Ultimately, weakness may lead Russia to the last arena where it is still indisputably a superpower: chemical, biological andnuclearweapons. From the start of this war, Mr Putin and his government have repeatedly brandished the threat of weapons of mass destruction. Mr Putin is rational, in that...
Can corruption be used to improve re-election chances of politicians in office? What is the optimal level of corruption for doing so? In this paper I use suspicious patterns of public procurement allocations in local government as a proxy measurement of corruption, based on combining quantitative ...
In all the areas in which we really need a capacity to reintroduce the primacy of politics into the economy, which is operating in a worldwide arena. And I think corruption, and the fight against corruption, and the impact of corruption, is probably one of the most interesting ways to ill...
the ex-general deposited the stolen funds in the accounts of two companies where he is the sole signatory. This and other reports confirm the systemic corruption in the security agencies, how the humongous funds appropriated to fight terrorism are stolen, and why insecurity persists in the ...
This has resulted in a world in which we can no longer trust government leaders, CDC directors, or even major news outlets to give us the truth. And when brave patriots have come forward to fight this corruption and injustice, they have been slandered, sued, and silenced. In Part II of...
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. — Ronald Reagan 54 A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. — Amos Bronson Alcott...
It will help to give a loud roar to a nearly silent movement to end human rights abuses of an unfathomable scale.Watch Cooke’s gripping and poignant call to action, and learn more about the chilling facts below:The Us has the largest prison population on the planet, larger than China....
In order for their opinions to really matter, people must have sufficient power to influence government decisions. An individual, or even a large group of individuals, cannot be assumed to make this kind of difference. How can we, then, empower them — short of giving them all weapons as ...
the National Audit Officeclaimedthat it detected central government departments embezzling as much as $21 million through the use of fake invoices. Wang Yuhua, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of a study on corruption in China, told New...