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    Corruption in China

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    CORRUPTION IN CHINA The domestic challenges facing China during the next few decades are enormous. China faces serious corruption‚ increasing mass unrest‚ enlarged polarization in the personal and regional income distribution‚ increased unemployment and insufficient social safety net‚ shortages of energy and key resources for economic modernization‚ massive migrations from rural areas to urban areas‚ extensive bad debt held by state banks and deep problems in the financial sector‚ excessive public

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    An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office.[1]Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century.[1] Elections may fill offices in the legislature‚ sometimes in the executive and judiciary‚ and for regional and local government. This process is also used in many other private and business organizations‚ from clubs to voluntary associations and corporations. Suffrageedit

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    behavior is the Nigeria Oil‚ its oil have brought great revenues to the country. Actually‚ Nigeria is listed among the “NEXT ELEVEN” economic. Now day‚ the corruption in this vast country is become as normal operation; people talk bribery before laws or rules. In Africa‚ Nigeria as known as the best place for business because of its level of corruption‚ it’s easy to have anything with couple dollars or Naira (Nigeria money). Who was involved? In this case‚ the guilty man is James Ibori; Ibori was

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    Prison Corruption

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    Corruption is a common occurrence in prisons in this country and around the world. The reason for this is because prison environments provide for the combination of individuals with lost rights and individuals with full power‚ plus minimal monitoring. This equation produces inevitable corruption. The antidote to corruption is exposition. Corruption happens under the cloak of darkness. Once light is shed on the wrong-doing‚ a sort of purification process occurs and wrongs are righted. Hence‚ the

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    Corruption

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    corruption is spiritual or moral impurity or deviation from an ideal. Corruption may include many activities including bribery and embezzlement. Government‚ or ’political’‚ corruption occurs when an office-holder or other governmental employee acts in an official capacity for his or her own personal gain. Being corrupted may be the easiest way-or indeed the only way-to get what they want. At times‚ a bribe may provide a convenient means of avoiding punishment. Many who observe that politicians

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    According to Morris‚[3] corruption is described as the illegitimate use of public power to benefit a private interest. Senior‚[4] however‚ defines corruption as an action to (a) secretly provide (b) a good or a service to a third party (c) so that he or she can influence certain actions which (d) benefit the corrupt‚ a third party‚ or both (e) in which the corrupt agent has authority. Scales of corruption[edit] Corruption can occur on different scales. There is corruption that occurs as small favours

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    Police Corruption

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    informed discretion in all activities. Combination of power‚ authority‚ and discretion in police work produces great potential for abuse. Police corruption has been a problem in American society since the early days of policing. An ancient natural tendency of human beings is to attempt to placate or win over those in positions of authority over them. This tendency is complicated in today’s materialistic society by greed and by the personal and financial benefit to be derived from evading

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    use unlawful methods to take possession of lands near their own or lands that belonged to the poor so that they could have bigger farms. A large number of slaves were employed to work on the lands and for this‚ the rich continued to gain wealth and power (Appian. R. Hist. Ex. 7). Even though the Romans were worried about the large number of slaves and diminishing number of armies‚ reformation was not considered as it was not easy or fair to them (Appian R. Hist. Ex. 8). This was until a noble man named

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    “Viva la Vida” by Coldplay shows the classic example of how power can corrupt the lives of people who do not know how to wield it. The speaker of the song (who is implied to be a past king) constantly references his past experiences in order to relay this message. For example‚ when the speaker says‚ “I used to roll the dice/ Feel the fear in my enemy’s eyes… / Next the walls were closed on me” he is referring to how he gambled with his power and eventually lost everything and was jailed as a result

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    Political Corruption

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    1. Why have governments individually and collectively decided to crack down on corruption? Is this crack-down a permanent change or just a temporary phase? a. Over a decade‚ Corruption has become a serious threat for every nation as it directly impacts the country’s economy thereby its overall growth at all levels. b. Corruption is considered to be a global disease which has already spread across the universe in a drastic manner and no country can be proud to say that they are corruption

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