"Outsized donations cause corruption or create the perception of corruption.
That has helped fuel a perception of corruption and unfairness, analysts say.
When first introduced, elections were seen as a way to insulate judicial nominations from the perception of corruption.
"To say the perception of corruption and the reality of corruption are equally important is simply not valid," he told the inquiry.
In a prominent 2007 survey that ranked 180 countries by their inhabitants' "perception of corruption," Egypt fell to 105 from 70 the year before.
"We are unable to deal with this perception of corruption because of weak leadership," says Professor Newman Kusi, executive director at Accra's Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The Spanish prime minister was talking to the Guardian on the day a Transparency International report revealed that the perception of corruption in Spain had increased dramatically.
Mr Pennington says that Mr Deal needs to "tell us what happened", adding that the perception of corruption among state officials hurts Georgia's economy.
Transparency International gave Panama a score of only 3.3 out of 10 on the perception of corruption (with a 10 being considered clean).
The appeals court treated Missouri's claim of a compelling interest "in avoiding the corruption or the perception of corruption brought about when candidates for elective office accept large campaign contributions" as insufficient by itself to satisfy strict scrutiny...
The group plans a new push to fight judicial corruption, and the perception of corruption that campaign money can cause, by encouraging state initiatives to scrap direct judicial elections.
