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This paper reviews and discusses political corruption. The paper uses the 2005 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) as a guide to the world's most corrupt nations. According to the paper, the country believed to be the most corrupt nation of all, is Haiti. The paper also examines the issues surrounding political corruption in Norway and goes on to review the solvency in each nation and its relationship / linkage to political corruption.

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"NORWAY: Norway is ranked #8 on the CPI, behind Iceland, Finland, Denmark, Singapore, Sweden and Switzerland. The CIA World Factbook records that in the 1960s, Norway discovered oil and gas in its offshore waters, which was a welcome addition to its list of plentiful natural resources (iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, titanium, pyrites, nickel, fish, timber and hydropower). Whereas in Haiti natural disasters come in the form of powerful hurricanes, in Norway there are far less destructive "rockslides" and "avalanches," the CIA explains. Also, as far as trade, Norway has the advantage of being "adjacent to sea lanes and air routes" in the North Atlantic region. "

Tags:Transparency, International, Corruption, Perceptions, Index, (CPI), politics, foreign, investment

Abstract
The paper discusses how corruption is an old as bureaucracy itself, and the police forces of various countries are no exception. However, the paper relates that from the late 1960s to the present, the problem of police corruption in the United States has both gotten worse and gone underground. This paper explores three reasons for the increasing tempo and intensity of police corruption: the increasing power of organized crime (particularly in the world of drugs), declining police budgets, and the emergence and strengthening of a culture of corruption. The conclusion is that corruption is no longer an episodic anomaly but an ingrained part of the environment in which policing itself takes place.

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"This paper relates how police corruption, although as old as the institution of civil protection, has taken on new urgency thanks to the increasing power of organized crime, declining police budgets, and the emergence of a culture of corruptibility. Corruption is an old as bureaucracy itself, and the police forces of various countries are no exception. However, from the late 1960s to the present, the problem of police corruption in the United States has both gotten worse and gone underground. This paper explores three reasons for..."

Tags:police, corruption, louisiana

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In this article the writer examines the subject of corruption in China. The writer demonstrates that corruption can be shown as a structural issue. The writer suggests corruption arose due to the transition at the time of the reform into the new China. The writer notes that the contradictions inherent in this transition can be seen to have been the causes of the corruption that now runs rampant in China. Further, the writer claims that the extent of the corruption problem in China is reflected by the enormous economic disparities that are emerging.

From the Paper
"It is widely acknowledged, both within China and outside of it, that corruption is rampant in China. This is often perceived as primarily a cultural or moral issue. However, it can be shown that corruption is a structural issue. It has emerged because of the reform-era transition from the old China to the new China."

Tags:china, corruption, structural

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This paper examines police corruption and its root causes, recruitment, training, resources and supervision. Other theories of corruption are explored as well, including the temptation for the abuse of the wide latitude of discretion that is afforded to the law enforcement community. The two types of corruption monetary and police criminal activity are reviewed including examples of both from several of the more infamous police scandals. The changes that have occurred in corruption from the past to the modern error of domestic terror threats are discussed. Finally, potential solutions to the problem of police corruption are analyzed.

Tags:police, corruption, causes

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This paper discusses how over the last decade there has been much discussion about the issue of corruption in the public schools. Arrests, grand jury indictments and massive financial audits have occurred in order to attack this problem across the nation. The paper further discusses how while there are those that suggest that corruption is only made to be such a gigantic problem because of media involvement in specific events, the evidence indicates that corruption is a national problem. Snell (2004) reported that the Roslyn School District of Long Island, New York first identified a national issue related to corruption in the public schools (sec. 1). At the Roslyn School District the "former school superintendent Frank A. Tassone and senior administrator Pamela C. Gluckin were each charged recently with stealing more than $1 million from the district".

Tags:education, corruption, schools

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This paper presents a brief discussion of political corruption and its corrosive effects upon three nations: Canada, the United States and Mexico. The paper looks at the background situation in each land as well as the impact of corruption upon each. Finally, the paper also offers some possible solutions that might allow each nation to escape from under the cloud of political corruption and dishonesty. In the end, it emphasises that a corrupt political system ultimately means a dangerously dysfunctional democratic one.

Tags:political, corruption, solutions

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This paper discusses the idea that there can be little doubt that corruption is a serious problem which affects many people on many different levels, economically, socially and certainly politically. The paper briefly reviews the human toll associated with political corruption along with providing a thumbnail sketch of how this writer knowledge of corruption has altered the way he views politics. The paper further explores how this now rather jaded view of politics impacts his political participation and impacts also the political participation of others.

Tags:edwidge, danticat, corruption

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This paper looks at four things that political corruption does to less-developed nations - things that thwart efforts to build strong, sustainable and progressive lands able to prosper in the global economy. First of all, the paper describes how political corruption (largely in the sense of taking public money and using it for personal gain) facilitates the flight of capital from poor nations when capital is the one thing it needs more than anything else. The paper points out that this capital is frequently the capital that government officials have cleverly accumulated for themselves.

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"There can scarcely be any doubt that political corruption plays a critical role in the slow development - or non-development - of third-world nations. With this uppermost in mind, the following paper will look at four things that political corruption does to less-developed nations - things that thwart efforts to build strong, sustainable and progressive lands able to prosper in the global economy. First of all, political corruption (largely in the sense of taking public money and using it for personal gain) facilitates the flight of capital from poor nations when..."

Tags:corruption, nations, development

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This paper gives a factual account of the development of police corruption to the peak it is at today. It speaks of the social contract by which police are to abide, remaining small and dedicated to preserving the safety and law of the land. However, explains the author, as time went on the police force came to be increasingly relied on as an instrument of political and racial power. Recently, police brutality is especially directed to certain American racial and political minorities. This paper concludes that riots and outbursts against police brutality from the minorities will continue until the government puts an end to police corruption.

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"America's founding fathers were militant revolutionaries. This nation was built upon social contract theory, the idea that the government exists by the will of the people and that they are obligated to obey only so long as that government operates in a moral fashion and in the best interests of its subjects. For many years the police forces of this nation followed the spirit of a social contract, remaining small and dedicated to preserving the safety and law of the land. However, as time went on the police force came to be increasingly relied on as an instrument of political and racial power. World War I saw the beginning of the police as an anti-protest and anti-civil rights weapon. Their roles in putting down political and racial protest came to maturity during the 1960s, as they turned their fire against war protests and race riots. In recent years, the blatant racist and political nature of police power has hidden behind a shield of anti-terrorist and anti-drug action. The ACLU writes that, "From the outset, the war on drugs has in fact been a war on people and their constitutional rights, with African Americans, Latinos and other minorities bearing the brunt of the damage." Racial profiling and police brutality daily threaten the lives of American racial and political minorities, while the government turns a blind eye. "The see-no-evil policy of the feds toward police violence comes at a time when the number of police abuse complaints has soared nationally. The Department gets about 15, 000 complaints yearly." "

Tags:police, government, law, civil-rights, corruption, social, contract, minorities, race, drugs, riots

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This essay considers the role of private military firms, and their corrupting influence on the American military. It looks at the conditions which have made private military firms essential to the smooth execution of military operations overseas and then looks at the tremendous corruption that these firms have engendered through bribery and the like.

From the Paper
"Critics have decried the presidency of George W. Bush as a disaster. As one writer put it eloquently: George W. Bush is the worst President the country has endured since Richard Nixon, . . . Indeed, if one regards the Bush Administration's sins of governance--its distortion of intelligence in a time of crisis, its grotesque indulgence of the rich at the expense of the rest, its arrogant dissolution of American prestige and influence abroad, its heedless squandering of the world's resources . . . then President Bush is in a league only with the likes of Harding, Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan."

Tags:military, contracts, corruption