Global Political Corruption: Causes, Effects and Remedies

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Corruption is a cancer that spreads rapidly all over the body. It’s a big hurdle in the prosperity of the nations. Due to concrete measures in Australia, Canada and few European countries corruption has dropped extensively, nevertheless in developing and underdeveloped countries (especially Afghanistan and Somalia) it is still a critical problem. According to the Global Corruption Barometer 2013 released by Transparency international, a worldwide survey conducted with 114,000 people that analyze bribery and political corruption in 107 countries. It was found in the report that, bribery and corruption are widespread across both developed and underdeveloped countries. More than 50 percent of the respondents from survey said that the corruption had worsened in the recent past, and 27 percent of them admitted to offering bribes in order to get their work done in public services and institutions (Wills 2013).

"Corruption is a symptom of other underlying problems" (Heidenheimer and Johnston 355) and has therefore various forms. The very first one is bribery whereby the political individuals misuse their power by favoring a person or institution by taking valuable asset especially cash. Next in line is the authoritative nature of an influential person who may make decisions in favor of persons or organizations that give him monetary benefits in return. Typically, many industrialists pay in return for policies that are favorable for their businesses. Patronage also holds a prominent place where only those people are hired in public offices that can support their personnel agendas even if they are not skillful for the task. Therefore, in many countries whenever a new Politician is elected then he changes all the staff. Nepotism which ref...

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