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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hInternational Political Economy IPE is about interplay of economics and politics in world affairs. The core question of IPE is: what drives and explains events in the world economy? For some peoplethis comes down to a battle of ‘states versus markets’. The ‘markets’ for world economy are not like local Street bazaars in which all items can be openly and competitively traded and exhanged. Equally‚ politicians cannot rule the global economy. World markets and countries‚ local firms and multinational
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archaeologists come up with conclusion? Where did the first humans arrive from? What is Pangaea? When did Homo sapiens begin to move from Africa to Europe and Asia? Beringia Who were the Paleo-Indians? Why did humans wander into North America after 15‚000 BP? Why is the Paleo-Indian spear point named Clovis point? What happened in 11‚000 BP that changed the Paleo-Indian lifestyle? In what two ways did the Paleo-Indians change their lifestyle? How were the Archaic-Indians
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Political corruption has been around seemingly forever.It’s like a weed that never will go away no matter how much you want it gone. Indeed Robert Lekachman noted‚ “Greed characterizes the workings of government” (360). Bell‚ California is an example of how political corruption took place. City councilmen and women took misappropriations of public funds‚ raising taxes and pocketing most of the money. Members of the city council took advantage of citizens‚ stealing the money they paid in taxes. Robert
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developmental policies and their application in the real world scenario of “economic warfare”. Viner’s writing is to an enormous degree recent‚ as compared to list’s and Hamilton’s respectively; it revisits the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century economic practices and then elaborates the policies as grounded in National pursuit of Power and Plenty; he writes in inquiry of whether States concerned themselves with pursuit of power‚ as central to acquisition of plenty or whether plenty created an ease in acquisition
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will disregard the political uncertainty between Taiwan and China‚ and consider Taiwan as a Chinese entity. Japan claims that those islands have been under Japanese sovereignty since 1895‚ when the islands were annexed into Japanese territory after finding them to be terra nullius. China claims to have acquired those islands through discovery and historical use since 1372‚ but ceded those islands to Japan in 1895 under the Treaty of Shimonoseki until the end of World War II‚ where it reclaimed possession
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How does the concept of civic culture’ differ from that of political culture’? To what extent can the latter explain why the politics of countries differ? "When we speak of the political culture‚ we refer to the political system as internalized in cognitions‚ feelings‚ and evaluations of its population." Almond and Verba In their classic 1963 study‚ Civic Culture‚ political culture was defined within very narrow parameters‚ concerning only political’ attitudes. This neglected the existence
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INTERNATIONAL LAW OUTLINE I. THE TYPES AND SOURCES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW Statute of the International Court of Justice: (Article 38) The Court‚ whose function is to decide in accordance with international law such disputes as are submitted to it‚ shall apply: (a) international conventions‚ whether general or particular‚ establishing rules expressly recognized by contesting states; (b) international custom‚ as evidence of a general practice accepted as law; Determining custom: The general
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proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people. Whereas it is essential‚ if man is not to be compelled to have recourse‚ as a last resort‚ to rebellion against tyranny and oppression‚ that human rights should be protected by the rule of law. Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations‚ Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights‚ in the dignity and worth of the human person
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IBMS-3G Date: * 30-09-2011 Introduction This report contains the proceedings during the set up of the agreement and the proceedings after the breach of contract between two parties: Trans Trust SPRL versus Danubian Trading co. The agreement was about the sales of 1‚000 tons of rolled steel sheets which were supposed to deliver FOB in Antwerpen on 1950. Due to this agreement there got another party involved; the American company S.A.Azur‚ which was a wholesaler for the manufacturer‚ S
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