International Aid Transparency Initiative

I am a recent reader of your article by The New York Times, Drug Gang Killed Students, Mexican Law Official Says. This tragic event of the 43 students from Mexico in September 2014, has come to my attention and I have developed my own opinion and thoughts regarding your information. The government and law system in Mexico most definitely is corrupt, but how many more situations in different countries have had encounters like this? How many have been actually recognized and addressed? It is very…

This hypothesis again points to the United States responding quicker than South Korea, Mexico, or Russia. When comparing the GDP of each nation, I compared the GDP of each nation in the year in which each spill occurred. The third variable that this study will look to investigate is political gridlock. For this study political gridlock is defined as a situation in which passing laws becomes difficult, this occurs when the ratio between bills passed and the agenda of the legislature decreases.…

Introduction Corruption is a phenomenon that has received and continues to receive a generous amount of attention from researchers and theorists alike in the Political world. Throughout the review of the source literature, certain themes were discovered as to where the literature converges and diverges. This paper addresses four of those themes namely; Qualitative (de Graaf and Hubarts, Urinboyev and Svensson and Jos ) versus Quantitative Research (Kilkon Ko and Ananya Samajdar, Lalountas et al…

Having analysed the parameters of guanxi, the same attention must be afforded to corruption. Within such an exploration there are several key questions which must be addressed. The first is whether there has been an increase in corruption, or if corruption has simply been afforded greater attention in recent years. The second issue concerns definition. According to the World Bank, corruption is “the abuse of public office for private gain.” (World Bank 1997). Accordingly, ‘corruption’ might…

SEMINAR PAPER-2 1) INTRODUCTION: Corruption is not a new phenomenon in India and has been prevalent since time immemorial. However, in recent times it’s in the public eye due to its cancerous spread across the length and breadth of the nation. Both the public and the private sectors are infected with corruption, making it an eminent threat to the prosperity of the nation (Bardhan, 1997), as it hampers economic growth, results in political instability, social capital and legitimacy, increases…

Interest groups are known to be corrupt and always bribe secretly elected official. They only look after their desire and their need. I believe they should be tougher restrictions on interest groups, and they should be laws both federal and state level that investigates them thoroughly. If the government does not monitor interest groups closely they will be lots of corruption that will devastate the economy and the credibility of the United States as a thriving democracy. Interest groups…

Out of all the Humanists discussed in class, Thomas More provides the best insights into the human condition. First of all, in More’s important book, Utopia, he wrote about his ideal and imaginary nation that he wished the world could reflect. In this Utopian society, people share everything, have abundance, work and eat as a community, and lead ordered, regulated lives. More wished that everyone could be equal, and described that in his Utopia “nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for…

Adam Galinsky, a psychologist at Northwestern University conducted a series of experiments to find whether powerful individual give importance to others or not. As part of the experiment, Galinsky asked the participants to write letter ‘E’ on their forehead. The results of the experiment showed that participant who were primed with the feeling of power wrote ‘E’ backward, when seen by another person (Lehrer, Jonah. "How Power Corrupts."). This experiment clearly shows how powerful individuals…

What makes an average judge decide to turn corrupt? How many courtrooms follow corrupt practices? What can the impact be when judges lack a sense of public duty? It may be difficult to find the answers to questions that provoke so much guilt, but finding them means relief. Relief for Americans who do not trust rulings and need help to understand them, or receive another hearing. The grandest moment in recent corruption history for the United States government dates back to the 1960’s when…

Bribery and corruption is an issue that is very happening in most of the countries. What is bribery and corruption? Bribery is a practice of offering something to gain certain advantage, for example: money, assets, gift and so on and so forth, and corruption is when an individual itself abuse its power to gain an undue advantage. Bribery is an unethical behavior and it is also very unfair practice, for example: the employer pay people for their normal job is called wage, and when the employee…