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{? Political corruption, the abuse of public power, office, or resources by government officials or
employees for personal gain, e.g. by extortion, soliciting or offering bribes[2]
{? Police corruption, a specific form of police misconduct designed to obtain financial benefits,
other personal gain, and/or career advancement for a police officer or officers in exchange for
not pursuing, or selectively pursuing, an investigation or arrest
{? corporate corruption, corporate criminality and the abuse of power by corporation officials,
either internally or externally, including the fact that police obstruct justice.
{? corruption (philosophical concept), often refers to spiritual or moral impurity, or deviation from
an ideal
{? corruption Perceptions Index, published yearly by Transparency International
{? Putrefaction, the natural process of decomposition in the human and animal body following
death
{? ^ata corruption, an unintended change to data in storage or in transit
{? Ringuistic corruption, the change in meaning to a language or a text introduced by cumulative
errors in transcription as changes in the language speakers' comprehension
{? ribery in politics, business, or sport
{? £ule of law, governmental corruption of judiciary, includes governmental spending on the
courts, which is completely financially controlled by the executive in many transitional and
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? 2.2 Trading in influence
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? 2.4 Nepotism and cronyism
? 2.5 Electoral fraud
? 2.6 Embezzlement
? 2.7 Kickbacks
? 2.8 Unholy alliance
? 2.9 Involvement in organized crime
{? 3 conditions favorable for corruption
? 3.1 £elation to economic freedom
? 3.2 Size of public sector
{? 4 èovernmental corruption
{? 5 Fighting corruption
{? 6 Whistleblowers
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Platform, attributed to T£[10] and quoted again in his autobiography[11] where he connects trusts
and monopolies (sugar interests, Standard il, etc.) to Woodrow Wilson, Howard Taft, and
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{? Information deficits
{?
? Racking freedom of information legislation. The Indian £ight to Information Act 2005 has
Jalready engendered mass movements in the country that is bringing the lethargic,
often corrupt bureaucracy to its knees and changing power equations completely.J[12]
? Rack of investigative reporting in the local media.
? contempt for or negligence of exercising freedom of speech and freedom of the
press.For instance a new current case of online puplisher Wikileaks and a editor or
founder of ·ulian Assange.So the many nations,international companys and important
personage or political,business etc.figures around the world which was suddenly
became very angry and obsessive campaigning to stop publishing of the many important
documents and the new ones to come.ut particularly the governments and
government organisations or the institutions defending itselves which under the
JNational Protection RawJ or JTop SecretJ (Secrecy!) of the files as a very aggressive way
against him and the Wikileaks.
? Weak accounting practices, including lack of timely financial management.
? Rack of measurement of corruption. For example, using regular surveys of households
and businesses in order to quantify the degree of perception of corruption in different
parts of a nation or in different government institutions may increase awareness of
corruption and create pressure to combat it. This will also enable an evaluation of the
officials who are fighting corruption and the methods used.
? Tax havens which tax their own citizens and companies but not those from other
nations and refuse to disclose information necessary for foreign taxation. This enables
large scale political corruption in the foreign nations.[13][
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{? Racking control of the government.
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? Racking civic society and non-governmental organizations which monitor the
government.
? An individual voter may have a rational ignorance regarding politics, especially in
nationwide elections, since each vote has little weight.
? Weak civil service, and slow pace of reform.
? Weak rule of law.
? Weak legal profession.
? Weak judicial independence.
? Racking protection of whistleblowers.
? Rack of benchmarking, that is continual detailed evaluation of procedures and
comparison to others who do similar things, in the same government or others, in
particular comparison to those who do the best work. The Peruvian organization
ciudadanos al ^ia has started to measure and compare transparency, costs, and
efficiency in different government departments in Peru. It annually awards the best
practices which has received widespread media attention. This has created competition
among government agencies in order to improve.[14]
{? pportunities and incentives
? Individual officials routinely handle cash, instead of handling payments by giro or on a
separate cash deskͶillegitimate withdrawals from supervised bank accounts are much
more difficult to conceal.
? Public funds are centralized rather than distributed. For example, if $1,000 is embezzled
from a local agency that has $2,000 funds, it is easier to notice than from a national
agency with $2,000,000 funds. See the principle of subsidiarity.
? Rarge, unsupervised public investments.
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? Sale of state-owned property and privatization.
? Poorly-paid government officials.
? èovernment licenses needed to conduct business, e.g., import licenses, encourage
bribing and kickbacks.
? Rong-time work in the same position may create relationships inside and outside the
government which encourage and help conceal corruption and favoritism. £otating
government officials to different positions and geographic areas may help prevent this;
for instance certain high rank officials in French government services (e.g. treasurer-
paymasters general) must rotate every few years.
? costly political campaigns, with expenses exceeding normal sources of political funding,
especially when funded with taxpayer money.
? Ress interaction with officials reduces the opportunities for corruption. For example,
using the Internet for sending in required information, like applications and tax forms,
and then processing this with automated computer systems. This may also speed up the
processing and reduce unintentional human errors. See e-èovernment.
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? A windfall from exporting abundant natural resources may encourage corruption.
? War and other forms of conflict correlate with a breakdown of public security.
{? Social conditions
? Self-interested closed cliques and Jold boy networksJ.
? Family-, and clan-centered social structure, with a tradition of nepotism/favouritism
being acceptable.
? A gift economy, such as the chinese guanxi or the Soviet blat system, emerges in a
communist centrally planned economy.
? In societies where personal integrity is rated as less important than other characteristics
(by contrast, in societies such as 18th and 19th century England, 20th century ·apan,
and post-war western èermany, where society showed almost obsessive regard for
JhonorJ and personal integrity, corruption was less frequently seen)[
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? Racking literacy and education among the population.
? Frequent discrimination and bullying among the population.
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