Why doesn’t George W. Bush fire Attorney General Alberto Gonzales? Like Donald Rumsfeld before him and, more recently, Paul Wolfowitz, Gonzales is causing President Bush political embarrassment and costing him political support. The President’s supporters praise his personal loyalty to subordinates. His critics charge him with arrogance and unwillingness to admit error. But both sides, while recognizing Bush’s loss of political capital, fail to recognize his protection of something he regards as more critical: his social capital.
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Friday, May 04, 2007
Corruption as Betrayal : Experimental Evidence on Corruption Under Delegation
By Nicolas Jacquemet
Working Paper 0506
GATE (Lyon II University) & CIRPEE (Laval University)
ABSTRACT
We consider corruption behavior in a three-players game : Principal, Agent, Corrupter. When the Principal chooses a fair wage, the Agent faces con°icting interests to reciprocate. This delegation effect is expected to lower the level of corruption as compared to what arises in two-players settings. We set up two experiments varying in the exogeneity of the delegation relationship. The experimental evidence supports the delegation effect. This, in turn, could account for the deterrence effect of wage on corruption even in the absence of detection.
Paper pdf version
Working Paper 0506
GATE (Lyon II University) & CIRPEE (Laval University)
ABSTRACT
We consider corruption behavior in a three-players game : Principal, Agent, Corrupter. When the Principal chooses a fair wage, the Agent faces con°icting interests to reciprocate. This delegation effect is expected to lower the level of corruption as compared to what arises in two-players settings. We set up two experiments varying in the exogeneity of the delegation relationship. The experimental evidence supports the delegation effect. This, in turn, could account for the deterrence effect of wage on corruption even in the absence of detection.
Paper pdf version
New litmus test for democracies?
When personal equations and judicious decisions are not in harmony
By ALOK SHEEL
The Financial Express, April 11, 2007
'That democracies have an ambivalent attitude towards friendship, postulated by Mark Vernon in a recent book, The Philosophy of Friendship, might come as a shock.'
Read entire article here
By ALOK SHEEL
The Financial Express, April 11, 2007
'That democracies have an ambivalent attitude towards friendship, postulated by Mark Vernon in a recent book, The Philosophy of Friendship, might come as a shock.'
Read entire article here
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Corruption in Education System in India
School System and Corruption in INDIA
Source: Livemint - The Wall Street Journal
"One of the most frequently used words in India, corruption signifies a range of things. In 2005, Transparency International and Delhi-based Centre for Media Studies, a research firm, undertook the India Corruption Study. The survey covered 14,405 respondents over 20 states and included interviews with service providers & users on the spot. The survey is not based on perception alone; it includes the experience of people in paying bribes. The results, published the same year, showed Indians pay around Rs21,068 crore as bribes while availing one of 11
public services. While some of the highlights of the survey were published, many of the details were not. The study, however, remains the most recent and the most comprehensive report on corruption in India. Apart from calculating the extent of corruption, in Rs crore, it explains the mechanics of it. Over the week, Mint will present details of the CMS study. On Monday, we featured India's public distribution system. Today, we look at the education system."
Source: Livemint - The Wall Street Journal
"One of the most frequently used words in India, corruption signifies a range of things. In 2005, Transparency International and Delhi-based Centre for Media Studies, a research firm, undertook the India Corruption Study. The survey covered 14,405 respondents over 20 states and included interviews with service providers & users on the spot. The survey is not based on perception alone; it includes the experience of people in paying bribes. The results, published the same year, showed Indians pay around Rs21,068 crore as bribes while availing one of 11
public services. While some of the highlights of the survey were published, many of the details were not. The study, however, remains the most recent and the most comprehensive report on corruption in India. Apart from calculating the extent of corruption, in Rs crore, it explains the mechanics of it. Over the week, Mint will present details of the CMS study. On Monday, we featured India's public distribution system. Today, we look at the education system."
China's corruption crackdown enters the bedroom
The Guardian Unlimited
April 30, 2007
China's 6.5 million civil servants were warned today they could be fired for keeping a mistress or neglecting elderly relatives, under new ethical guidelines aimed at curbing rampant corruption.
Prime minister Wen Jiabao signed the code of conduct, which will extend deep into the private lives of bureaucrats once it comes into effect in June.
Officials face possible dismissal if they are caught with a prostitute or abusing drugs, according to the People's Daily.
Full Article
April 30, 2007
China's 6.5 million civil servants were warned today they could be fired for keeping a mistress or neglecting elderly relatives, under new ethical guidelines aimed at curbing rampant corruption.
Prime minister Wen Jiabao signed the code of conduct, which will extend deep into the private lives of bureaucrats once it comes into effect in June.
Officials face possible dismissal if they are caught with a prostitute or abusing drugs, according to the People's Daily.
Full Article
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