Corruption can also be considered as a moral and philosophical issue. The emphasise here is given to a political and philosophical approach with a focus on the last and the most important evolutions of Western Societies: the decline of the State and the decline of values.Writers and scholars, ...
It is widely believed, for example, that local governments in China are much more corrupt than higher-level ones. Corruption varies not just by level of government, but by region and by function; the railroad ministry is very different from, say, the Central Bank. There is also something ...
But here, as in the case of the monasteries, we confront the strange problem of submission. If they stole the common from the goose, one can only say that he was a great goose to stand it. The truth is that they reasoned with the goose; they explained to him that all this was need...
We ...nd robust support for the hypothesis that episodes of reduction in corruption levels tend to be episodes of increased political accountability, whereas the support for a positive impact of economic reform is somewhat weaker. [Keywords: Corruption, paneldata, deomocracy, openness. JEL codes:...
What Do Corruption Indices Measure?What Do Corruption Indices Measure?doi:10.1111/ecpo.12037Evidence from the International Crime Victimization Survey and the World Business Environment Survey suggests that actual corruption experience is a weak predictor of reported corruption perception, and that some of...
What is the Bribery Act? The law under theBribery Act 2010the UK’s tough new anti-bribery and corruption law is straightforward and summarised below. The Bribery Act and the FCPA While it, like its US equivalent the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), has been criticised for being uncert...
(四) [什么是腐败的根源 What is the root cause of corruption]? 人们常说:新官上任三把火。意思是说新来的官员常常会[完全否定(fǒudìng)(fau2 ding6)前任官员 complete deny the former official], [以显(顯)示(xiǎnshì)(hin2 si6) in order to display][自己的能力 their competence]。而蛊...
or businesses consulting on how to profit from the laws they helped create and/or pass into law. Huhne, Gummer, Hendry, Yeo are blatant examples in the UK . Legalised corruption is designed into the British political system, set up by the elite and fronted by a veneer of elected democracy...
- Nigeria’s Delta, where natives of that region have rebelled against the environmental damage and corruption brought about by foreign oil exploitation, - Niger, where the Tuareg insurgency is motivated in large part by mineral exploitation in their territory. ...
Absentee voting has a long history of corruption and manipulation. Florida law places stringent requirements on voters who seek ballots in advance.Ms. Goard, Ms. Robbins and the GOP operatives ignored the warning printed in capital letters at the top of each absentee application: Only the voter ...