Nearly 15 years later, the style of corruption is far different, as is the money.
"It may not be the classic, New Jersey style of corruption, with the mobsters, the bold suits and guys with gold chains driving big cars," said Christopher Barnes, the associate director of the University of Connecticut's Center for Survey Research and Analysis.
But how we vote is still determined by a measure intended to put an end to nineteenth-century styles of political corruption.
Mr Farage on Monday accused the PM of "Fifa-style" levels of corruption over the vote, in an interview with the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
"They're pouring out into the streets because although they're very close to Russia... they're fundamentally a European country, and they're frustrated and sick of Soviet-style government, of corruption, of this personalisation of power," Mr Rojansky said.
Ms. Canary, the reform advocate, said she was trying to figure out the pathology that might explain such actions because they are not part of the classic style of Chicago corruption.
Many voters have also expressed fatigue with Mrs. Kirchner's governing style and reports of corruption among her prominent supporters.
People of the City (1954; rev. ed., 1969) is a commentary in a journalistic style on the problems of corruption, bribery, and despotism as seen through the eyes of a crime reporter and dance-band leader in Lagos.
At the other extreme, there were the two social-issue movies — first, the sinister and mesmerizing "Traffic" (2000), in which three parallel stories, each with its own look and style, dramatized the universality of corruption and the lethal ties of Mexican drug cartels and American users.
Before the presidential election, in which Mr. Museveni was re-elected to a fourth five-year term, Mr. Besigye had threatened Egyptian-style mass protests, and accusations of corruption and questionable government spending have polarized the political landscape.
