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Read Ebook: Corruption in American politics and life by Brooks Robert C Robert Clarkson
Font size: Background color: Text color: Add to tbrJar First Page Next PageEbook has 606 lines and 78110 words, and 13 pagesPAGE Introduction:--Corruption not defensible on the ground of the strength and prevalence of temptation 3 Four main lines of apology 4 That corruption makes business good 4 Protection of vice 5 Corrupt concessions to legitimate business 10 That corruption may be more than compensated for by the high efficiency otherwise of those who engage in it 14 That corruption saves us from mob rule 17 That corruption is part of an evolutionary process the ends of which are presumed to be so beneficent as to more than atone for the existing evils attributable to it 22 Conclusion: The probable future development of corruption in politics, the failure of the apologies for political corruption 37 Introduction, definition, etc. 41 Frequent use of the word corruption 41 Legal definitions contrasted with definitions from the point of view of ethics, political science, etc. 42 Verbal difficulties 42 Levity in the use of the word 42 Metaphor implied by the word 43 Distinction between bribery and corruption; between corruption and auto-corruption 45 Tentative definition of corruption 46 Analysis of the concept of corruption 46 Corruption not limited to politics. Exists in business, church, schools, etc. 46 Intentional character of corruption. Distinguished from inefficiency 48 Various degrees of clearness of political duties 51 Consequences of wide extension of political duties 52 Recognition of political duty 55 Legal and other standards 55 The radical view 57 Advantages sought by corrupt action 59 Various degrees and kinds of advantages 60 Rewards and threats 63 Degree of personal interest involved 65 Corruption for the benefit of party 71 Summary 74 Extreme consequences of corruption 81 Less extreme consequences of corruption: recovery from corrupt conditions 82 The continuing character of the problem of corruption 85 Disappearance of certain forms of corruption; changes of form of corruption 88 Subsidies from foreign monarchs 89 Influence of royal mistresses 90 Lord Bacon's case 90 Pepys and the acceptance of presents 93 Corruption and the administrative service appointments 95 Recent changes in the forms of municipal corruption 98 Limitation of corruption to certain branches or spheres of government 100 In local government only, in central government only 100 Middle grade of Japanese officials 102 Limitation of corruption in amount 105 Contractual character of most corruption 106 Prudential considerations restraining corruptionists 107 Summary 109 Forms of corruption not commonly recognised as such; their significance 113 General classification of recognised forms of corruption 116 Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page |
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