In general, corruption is a form of dishonesty or criminal activity undertaken by a person or organization entrusted with a position of authority, often to acquire illicit benefit. Corruption may include many activities including bribery and embezzlement, though it may also involve practices that are legal in many countries. Political corruption occurs when an office-holder or other governmental employee acts in an official capacity for personal gain. Corruption is most commonplace in kleptocracies, oligarchies, narco-states and mafia states
In general, corruption is a form of dishonesty or criminal activity undertaken by a person or organization entrusted with a position of authority, often to acquire illicit benefit. Corruption may include many activities including bribery and embezzlement, though it may also involve practices that are legal in many countries. Political corruption occurs when an office-holder or other governmental employee acts in an official capacity for personal gain. Corruption is most commonplace in kleptocracies, oligarchies, narco-states and mafia states
Bortoletti, what is corruption?, commissione europea, ipa zagabria 21 23 no...Maurizio Bortoletti
It does not seem strange, well, that's about to keep talking for a long time, sometimes with great emphasis to emphasize the decisive importance for the future of the country, but has failed to any concrete results: quite simply, it's about warning because the recruitment and promotion of the most capable introduce an intolerable element of unpredictability in the system and it is an attack on the right of co-optation. Well, that system - recalling Paolo Mancini in "In Praise of the subdivision" - which is like a twin sister, but much more palatable, the proverbial "sora camilla" nobody wants, but if everyone seize, still in the dark and silence, with the exception that denounce the subdivision of others, looking good from admitting that if they purloin some even their place of power but would not have been parcelling exercise of pluralism.
Bortoletti, what is corruption?, commissione europea, ipa zagabria 21 23 no...Maurizio Bortoletti
The fight against corruption and other offenses against the public administration must be based on accurate and objective data to give citizens a realistic representation of the situation and not ultra sized, taking into account that it is evoking themes and sensational easily usable by this or that political party
Il contrasto al fenomeno della corruzione e agli altri illeciti contro la pubblica amministrazione deve fondarsi su informazioni precise e su dati oggettivi per dare ai cittadini una rappresentazione realistica della situazione e non ultra dimensionata, tenuto conto che si tratta di tematiche evocanti ed eclatanti facilmente utilizzabili da questa o quella parte politica.
THINKING ON HOW TO KILL THE KILLER BEFORE HE KILLS US ALL WHO IS THE KILLER? ...PROF. PAUL ALLIEU KAMARA
INTRODUCTION
Who is or what is the true Killer of African People? This question has being playing on my mind for years’ and years to months and months to weeks and to days. Well today is the day I attempted to search for answers and to know the true killer of my African People. This article will attempts to suggest some of the killers or what killers African People. This article is not the final answers to the entire Problem. However, I intended to limit the discussions on Political Corruption as one of the main factors that kills everything in the hands of African. So let look at some definitions and characteristics of Political Corruption and its effect in our social-economic development of Africa.
For the purpose of this article I will define corruption and the type of corruption we have
PART 1. Corruption: Its Meaning, Type, and Real-World Example
Introduction Corruption has recently been the subject of substantial theorizing and empirical research, and this has produced a bewildering array of alternative approaches, explanations, typologies and remedies. Corruption is understood as everything from the paying of bribes to civil servants and the simple theft of public purses, to a wide range of dubious economic and political practices in which businesspeople, politicians and bureaucrats enrich themselves. The issue of corruption is an old one, that has re-entered the current political and economic debate from the new interest in the role of the state in the developing world, and from the assumption that the state is an indispensable instrument for economic development, redistribution and welfare. In contrast to the largely rejected “state-dominated” and “state-less” development models, there is now much consensus on the need for an efficient medium-sized state apparatus with a political will and adequate economic policies to ensure economic development. Corruption is seen as counter-productive to the needed economic and political reforms, accountability, transparency, and good governance. The intention of this paper is to classify the various forms of corruption in order to operationalize the concept for analytical and practical purposes. First, different forms of corruption will be outlined. Secondly, corruption will be defined as a particular state-society relationship, and the distinction made between political corruption and bureaucratic corruption. Then two more distinctions will be added, namely between “individual” and “collective” forms of corruption, and corruption as a mechanism of either “upward extraction” or “downward redistribution”. This will sum up to the basic argument that the fight against corruption will have to be placed within a broader agenda of democratization.
Public and Nonprofit Management Curbing Corruption, Enh.docxwoodruffeloisa
Public and Nonprofit Management: Curbing Corruption, Enhancing Efficiency
1
1
A Chain Is As Strong As It’s Weakest Link
Behind The Mask Of Our Governance
Public and nonprofit management is the development or application of methodical and systematic techniques that are designed
to analyze and make the operations of governments and public-service nonprofit organizations more efficient and effective.
The majority of public management’s key methods was initially established, in large part and occasionally in whole part, as
a reaction to corrupt governance, and each still is used to curb it.
Corruption’s causes are structural, cultural, and, of course, personal.
Corruption’s Causes
Governmental Structure and Graft
A large number of administrative units in a country lowers corruption. Illegal, tax-evading, “shadow economy is smaller in federal countries than in unitary states, although an increase in the income tax rate will unambiguously increase the taxpayer’s level of evasion.
Fiscal decentralization, a corollary of federal systems, also appears to reduce corruption in countries, even in those that are highly politicized.5
Culture and Corruption
National cultures that are poor and rural, and which have centralized governments, politically disengaged citizenries, a repressed press, citizens who are distrusting of each other, greater regulatory activity, and poorly paid public officials associate with high rates of corruption.
Note: An agency’s culture also can encourage graft when: there is no “clear integrity policy”; colleagues are loyal to one another; and supervision is too lax or too oppressive.
The Corrupt Public Official
Money is the leading reason why public officials become corrupt followed closely by love, friendship, and status.
Corrupt officials often have domineering personalities, are popular, and are viewed as effective, characteristics that give them “space to maneuver.”
In fact, large physical spaces, such as disproportionately big desks, can cause the people occupying them to feel “more powerful,” which, in turn, leads to “increases in dishonest behavior.”
They slowly “‘slide down’ toward corruption” and maintain “a long, institutionalized relationship” with their corruptors.
Corrupt officials rarely think of themselves as corrupt,
even though they commit multiple corrupt acts.
Lord Acton’s famous phrase, uttered in 1887, that, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” is not really accurate.
Gaining power merely reveals its owner’s already-existing character, for good or ill.
Note: Moral power holders do not misuse their power, but less moral ones do.
Why Does Corruption Endure?
The continuance of those governmental and cultural conditions that produce corruption also ensure its persistence.
It appears that the more centralized the government, the more “fused” that political power is within it,
and the less access that the press has to the government,
Democracies are la ...
Bortoletti, what is corruption?, commissione europea, ipa zagabria 21 23 no...Maurizio Bortoletti
It does not seem strange, well, that's about to keep talking for a long time, sometimes with great emphasis to emphasize the decisive importance for the future of the country, but has failed to any concrete results: quite simply, it's about warning because the recruitment and promotion of the most capable introduce an intolerable element of unpredictability in the system and it is an attack on the right of co-optation. Well, that system - recalling Paolo Mancini in "In Praise of the subdivision" - which is like a twin sister, but much more palatable, the proverbial "sora camilla" nobody wants, but if everyone seize, still in the dark and silence, with the exception that denounce the subdivision of others, looking good from admitting that if they purloin some even their place of power but would not have been parcelling exercise of pluralism.
Bortoletti, what is corruption?, commissione europea, ipa zagabria 21 23 no...Maurizio Bortoletti
The fight against corruption and other offenses against the public administration must be based on accurate and objective data to give citizens a realistic representation of the situation and not ultra sized, taking into account that it is evoking themes and sensational easily usable by this or that political party
Il contrasto al fenomeno della corruzione e agli altri illeciti contro la pubblica amministrazione deve fondarsi su informazioni precise e su dati oggettivi per dare ai cittadini una rappresentazione realistica della situazione e non ultra dimensionata, tenuto conto che si tratta di tematiche evocanti ed eclatanti facilmente utilizzabili da questa o quella parte politica.
THINKING ON HOW TO KILL THE KILLER BEFORE HE KILLS US ALL WHO IS THE KILLER? ...PROF. PAUL ALLIEU KAMARA
INTRODUCTION
Who is or what is the true Killer of African People? This question has being playing on my mind for years’ and years to months and months to weeks and to days. Well today is the day I attempted to search for answers and to know the true killer of my African People. This article will attempts to suggest some of the killers or what killers African People. This article is not the final answers to the entire Problem. However, I intended to limit the discussions on Political Corruption as one of the main factors that kills everything in the hands of African. So let look at some definitions and characteristics of Political Corruption and its effect in our social-economic development of Africa.
For the purpose of this article I will define corruption and the type of corruption we have
PART 1. Corruption: Its Meaning, Type, and Real-World Example
Introduction Corruption has recently been the subject of substantial theorizing and empirical research, and this has produced a bewildering array of alternative approaches, explanations, typologies and remedies. Corruption is understood as everything from the paying of bribes to civil servants and the simple theft of public purses, to a wide range of dubious economic and political practices in which businesspeople, politicians and bureaucrats enrich themselves. The issue of corruption is an old one, that has re-entered the current political and economic debate from the new interest in the role of the state in the developing world, and from the assumption that the state is an indispensable instrument for economic development, redistribution and welfare. In contrast to the largely rejected “state-dominated” and “state-less” development models, there is now much consensus on the need for an efficient medium-sized state apparatus with a political will and adequate economic policies to ensure economic development. Corruption is seen as counter-productive to the needed economic and political reforms, accountability, transparency, and good governance. The intention of this paper is to classify the various forms of corruption in order to operationalize the concept for analytical and practical purposes. First, different forms of corruption will be outlined. Secondly, corruption will be defined as a particular state-society relationship, and the distinction made between political corruption and bureaucratic corruption. Then two more distinctions will be added, namely between “individual” and “collective” forms of corruption, and corruption as a mechanism of either “upward extraction” or “downward redistribution”. This will sum up to the basic argument that the fight against corruption will have to be placed within a broader agenda of democratization.
Public and Nonprofit Management Curbing Corruption, Enh.docxwoodruffeloisa
Public and Nonprofit Management: Curbing Corruption, Enhancing Efficiency
1
1
A Chain Is As Strong As It’s Weakest Link
Behind The Mask Of Our Governance
Public and nonprofit management is the development or application of methodical and systematic techniques that are designed
to analyze and make the operations of governments and public-service nonprofit organizations more efficient and effective.
The majority of public management’s key methods was initially established, in large part and occasionally in whole part, as
a reaction to corrupt governance, and each still is used to curb it.
Corruption’s causes are structural, cultural, and, of course, personal.
Corruption’s Causes
Governmental Structure and Graft
A large number of administrative units in a country lowers corruption. Illegal, tax-evading, “shadow economy is smaller in federal countries than in unitary states, although an increase in the income tax rate will unambiguously increase the taxpayer’s level of evasion.
Fiscal decentralization, a corollary of federal systems, also appears to reduce corruption in countries, even in those that are highly politicized.5
Culture and Corruption
National cultures that are poor and rural, and which have centralized governments, politically disengaged citizenries, a repressed press, citizens who are distrusting of each other, greater regulatory activity, and poorly paid public officials associate with high rates of corruption.
Note: An agency’s culture also can encourage graft when: there is no “clear integrity policy”; colleagues are loyal to one another; and supervision is too lax or too oppressive.
The Corrupt Public Official
Money is the leading reason why public officials become corrupt followed closely by love, friendship, and status.
Corrupt officials often have domineering personalities, are popular, and are viewed as effective, characteristics that give them “space to maneuver.”
In fact, large physical spaces, such as disproportionately big desks, can cause the people occupying them to feel “more powerful,” which, in turn, leads to “increases in dishonest behavior.”
They slowly “‘slide down’ toward corruption” and maintain “a long, institutionalized relationship” with their corruptors.
Corrupt officials rarely think of themselves as corrupt,
even though they commit multiple corrupt acts.
Lord Acton’s famous phrase, uttered in 1887, that, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” is not really accurate.
Gaining power merely reveals its owner’s already-existing character, for good or ill.
Note: Moral power holders do not misuse their power, but less moral ones do.
Why Does Corruption Endure?
The continuance of those governmental and cultural conditions that produce corruption also ensure its persistence.
It appears that the more centralized the government, the more “fused” that political power is within it,
and the less access that the press has to the government,
Democracies are la ...
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3. INTRODUCTON:
• Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which
is undertaken by a person or an organization which is
entrusted in a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit
benefits or abuse power for one's personal gain.
• The abuse of trusted power for private gain.
4. SCALES OF CORRUPTION
1 . Petty corruption
Petty corruption occurs at a smaller scale and takes place at the implementation end of public services
when public officials meet the public. For example, in many small places such as registration offices, police
stations, state licensing boards, and many other private and government sectors
2 . Grand corruption
Grand corruption is defined as corruption occurring at the highest levels of government in a way that
requires significant subversion of the political, legal and economic systems. Such corruption is commonly
found in countries with authoritarian or dictatorial governments but also in those without adequate policing
of corruption
3 . Systemic corruption
Systemic corruption (or endemic corruption) is corruption which is primarily due to the weaknesses of an
organization or process. It can be contrasted with individual officials or agents who act corruptly within the
system.
5. CAUSES:
i. Poverty
ii. Greed of money, Desires and unemployment
iii. Lack of strict policies against corruption
iv. High level of market and political monopoly for profitability
v. Low level of education
vi. Lack of commitment to society
vii. Low political transparency
viii. Giving authority to less capable people
ix. No merit system
7. The right to freely express one’s opinion
Make strict anti-corruption policy and hotline 24/7
Expose corrupt activities and risks
Keep every sector honest, transparent, accountable
Protect officials who report corruption
Close international loopholes for money
laundering
Give prize on proving corruption
Punishing corrupts
How to control corruption / Solution
