Observers of our campaign-finance system often gloss over the fundamental concerns of corruption and instead focus only on the partisan political ramifications, but the corruption is very real.
This kind of graft will be hard to curb until regular payroll records are kept.To reduce the opportunities for corruption, fundamental changes will be needed to the way the Nigerian economy works.
But in recent years, his independence also allowed him to focus heavily on what some critics saw as a single-minded agenda -- the pursuit of often sensational crimes like sex abuse -- as opposed to more fundamental issues like corruption and mismanagement in local school districts.
The fundamental problems of corruption and weakened institutions take a long time to sort, and there is also the risk that governments might find easy or more superficial ways to meet the criteria set, without looking at the deep underlying issues that need to be addressed.
And that means coalescing around an issue "as fundamental as the corruption of the system," he said.
Exposure to the fundamental arbitrariness and corruption at the core of traffic law sours one's impression of the legal system as unjustly weighted against the marginal.
It documents countries' adherence to 44 rule of law indicators in categories including Absence of Corruption, Fundamental Rights, Civil Justice and Criminal Justice.
But Abramoff still remains very much a movement conservative, and he puts the fundamental blame for corruption not on flawed laws or weak people -- but on big government.
Finally, life expectancy was associated with absence of Corruption, Fundamental Rights, Open Government and Regulatory Enforcement (see table 3).
For CVDMR and DMR, Limited Government Powers, Absence of Corruption, Fundamental Rights, Open Government, Regulatory Enforcement, Civil Justice and Criminal Justice were associated.
