Qualification -- BE(Civil) Address -- A/11‚Road No.-7 Extn.‚New Dalma View Colony Old Sonari‚Jamshedpur – 831011‚Jharkhand Mobile No. -- 09178 460 468/773 565 86 35 E-mail -- raj_red123@rediffmail.com Democracy And Corrupt Politicians Democracy in India has the distinction of being world’s largest functioning democracy.Ever since her independence ‚India has been living and developing through a democratic system of governance involving a self rule of the people.Till today
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Corruption Can Destroy Democracy K S VENKATARAMAN Defining Corruption The term corruption is very common but it is difficult to give a dogmatic definition of it. Broadly‚ it is any dishonest or illegal or selfish behavior for getting any undue benefit. It has a special reference to those who occupy a position of trust or confidence but act in violation of generally understood or specified terms of behavior. Corruption involves two sides: One side trying to get some undue advantage
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JUDICIAL CORRUPTION‚ ACCOUNTABILITY AND DEMOCRACY Ronak Karanpuria1[1] “Justice howls when she is dragged about by bribe-devouring men whose verdicts are crooked when they sit in judgment.” Abstract The aim of the paper is to discuss whether the judiciary should be held accountable to law in the present scenario of India. Courts irresponsive behavior will undermine the reign of law and democracy. Defects in selection method of judge’s append with corruption in judiciary
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Corruption is the misuse of public funds and authority; political corruption is defined as the “sale by government officials of government property for personal gain.” (Shleifer 1993) An example of this is the fees collected by government officials to allow an individual through customs without check or for an individual to pass a driving test without completing it. These were examples of political corruption at the lowest levels of government‚ corruption also exists in the upper houses of government
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http://mbaforum.ascenteducation.com/corruption-is-the-price-we-pay-for-democracy-t381.html http://www.managementparadise.com/forums/hot-debates-big-fight/28739-corruption-price-we-pay-democracy.html http://www.careerride.com/GD-corruption-is-price-we-pay-for-democracy.aspx Autocracy democracy corruption i wud like to differ... as corruption is not exactly the price we pay for democracy.... in china there is communist govt.. but there is too corruption... in europe there is republican govt
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Lesson No. 7 Outcomes of Democracy Democracy is better than others We felt that democracy is better because it : - Promotes equality among citizens. - Enhance the dignity of the individual - Improves the quality of decision making. - Provides a method to resolve conflicts. - Allows room to correct mistakes. - The countries which have formal constitutions‚ they hold elections and form govts. - They guarantee rights of citizens. - Democracy solves the social and political and economic problems of the
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Corruption in any form is treated as an incurable disease‚ a cause of many social and economical evils in the society and it damages the moral and ethical fibres of the civilization. Indisputably‚ it is correct that corruption breeds many evils in the society and once corruption starts taking place‚ slowly and gradually whole country passes through its net and it becomes after sometime an incurable disease. From the point of view of economic growth‚ there seems to be no clear cut correlation between
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THE CAUSES OF CORRUPTION: A CROSS-NATIONAL STUDY Why is corruption—defined here as the misuse of public office for private gain—perceived to be more widespread in some countries than others? Different theories associate cross-national variation in the extent of corruption with particular historical and cultural traditions‚ levels of economic development‚ political institutions‚ and government policies. This paper analyzes which of various plausible determinants are significantly related to an
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Introduction Corruption is a disease‚ a cancer that eats into the cultural‚ political and economic fabric of society‚ and destroys the functioning of vital organs. In the words of Transparency International‚ “Corruption is one of the greatest challenges of the contemporary world.” It undermines good government‚ fundamentally distorts public policy‚ leads to the misallocation of resources‚ harms the private sector and private sector development and particularly hurts the poor. Corruption also defined
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India’s status as a shining jewel of democracy in the poor man’s world‚ and the sheer size of its electorate which alone entitles it to the designation of the world’s largest democracy‚ have earned the country an easy ride among skeptics in the past‚ despite misgivings about its blemishes. But critical voices have raised their heads in recent times which in turn gave an open challenge to the democratic governance in the country. Especially after the advent of new technologies the insignificant
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