Transparency

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…

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…

Judicial corruption in the eyes of its innocent victims, is wrongdoing by someone in power that can be life changing. People can be fined unfair fees or watch someone who stole from them go free. However, for the judges getting the extra cash or making a decision because of personal bias, a case in which corruption occurs can be part of a normal day, and no one would ever know. Corruption is much more oblivious in other countries around the world. For example, in Azerbaijan, a prisoner can be…

Analysis of Brodys Transparency Model of Informed Consent In regards to informed consent the medical field still struggles with finding the best way to obtain it in an easy way for both the patient and the physician. There are four models of informed consent that Howard Brody discusses in his essay Transparency: Informed Consent in Primary Care. The four models are the community practice standard, the reasonable patient model, the conversation model, and Brody’s own model the transparency…

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…

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…

bribes can validate an efficient allocation function, corruption should have been legalised. Another way to differentiate the form of corruption is by focusing on their scales: petty corruption, grand corruption and systemic corruption according to Transparency International, (2016). Petty corruption occurs at a small scale of money transaction when citizens…

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…

Pope Francis stated in his apostolic exhortation that ethics has come to be viewed in a bad manner and that it is “counterproductive, too human, because it makes money and power relative.” There are numerous instances that prove his point and that there is an ethical dimension to the economic and social political problems in our society. Society has become corrupt, so money oriented and business owners have become so greedy that ethics is often overlooked or completely forgotten about. There…

1. My main dilemma is whether or not to take the Judge’s suggestion and pose as Alex’s father. 2. It is unethical and against the law for me to pose as Alex’s parent for the express purpose of obtaining medical records that both myself and the judge have no legal right to possess. Even if I were to act upon the judge’s suggestion and find out that Alex had HIV, the evidence could not be used in court against the mother due to the manner in which it was obtained. Another dilemma is whether to…