In its worst form, crony capitalism can devolve into simple corruption, where any pretense of a free market is dispensed with.

This form of theodicy argues that evil does not exist except as a privation-or corruption of-goodness, and therefore God did not create evil.

Whistleblowers Australia is an association for those who have exposed corruption or any form of malpractice, especially if they were then hindered or abused.

After stating that a republic would lead to corruption and internal fighting, while a monarchy would be led with a single-mindedness, not possible in other governments, Darius was able to convince the other nobles that a monarchy was the correct form of government.

When a guanxi network violates bureaucratic norms, it can lead to corruption, and guanxi can also form the basis of patron – client relations.

P2 advocated a programme of extensive political corruption: " political parties, newspapers and trade unions can be the objects of possible solicitations which could take the form of economic-financial manoeuvres.

Economists argue that one of the factors behind the differing economic development in Africa and Asia is that in Africa, corruption has primarily taken the form of rent extraction with the resulting financial capital moved overseas rather than invested at home ( hence the stereotypical, but often accurate, image of African dictators having Swiss bank accounts ).

It can be difficult to make a distinction between this form of corruption and some forms of extreme and loosely regulated lobbying where for instance law-or decision-makers can freely " sell " their vote, decision power or influence to those lobbyists who offer the highest compensation, including where for instance the latter act on behalf of powerful clients such as industrial groups who want to avoid the passing of specific environmental, social, or other regulations perceived as too stringent, etc.

Kleptocracy, alternatively cleptocracy or kleptarchy, ( from-kleptēs, " thief " and κράτος-kratos, " power, rule ", hence " rule by thieves ") is a form of political and government corruption where the government exists to increase the personal wealth and political power of its officials and the ruling class at the expense of the wider population, often without pretense of honest service.

Because more than one message is stored in a single file, some form of file locking is needed to avoid the corruption that can result from two or more processes modifying the mailbox simultaneously.

For the Reformers, the culmination of this gradual corruption was typified, in a concentrated way, in the office of the Pope who took on ancient titles such as Pontifex Maximus and supreme power in the church, which they characterized in its final form as being an usurpatious throne of Satanic authority set up in pretense of ruling over the Kingdom of God.

However, Akhmim is an alleged corruption of ḫm-mnw, meaning Shrine of Min, via the demotic form šmn.

In Sanchuniathon's account Hadad is once called Adodos but mostly named Demarûs, a puzzling form, possibly a Greek corruption of Hadad Ramān.

This information is assembled by the computer into the form of symbols before being transcribed onto conventional punch cards which are ejected into various coded slots: when cards are produced, they appear simultaneously at Precrime and the army general headquarters, in order to prevent corruption.

In 1787, the most dramatic political event of the decade came to pass in the form of the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, the Governor of Bengal until 1785, on charges of corruption and extortion.

In the year 278 B. C., upon learning of the upcoming devastation of his state from invasion by a neighbouring Warring State ( Qin in particular ), Qu is said to have waded into the Miluo river which drains into Dongting Hu ( lake ) in today's Hunan Province — near the provincial capital city of Changsha and south of the city of Yueyang on Donting Hu, site of the first IDBF World Dragon Boat Championship in 1996 — holding a great rock in order to commit ritual suicide as a form of protest against the corruption of the era.

Still another traditional form of policing was the appointment of censors to investigate corruption and misconduct up to the highest levels of government.

* Graft ( politics ), a form of political corruption

This name is a corruption of the Ancient Greek name Strongulē which was given to it because of its round swelling form.

Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, often involving crime, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing.

Special Mission is presented in a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, often involving crime, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing.

The same year, revelations about government corruption surfaced in the form of a cigarettes-smuggling scandal in April.

These three, actuated probably by petty personal motives, combined to form a majority of the council in harassing opposition to the governor-general's policy ; and they even accused him of corruption, mainly on the evidence of Nuncomar.

However, Akhmim is a corruption of? m-mnw, meaning Shrine of Min, via the demotic form šmn.

The demand for illegal goods and services nurtures the emergence of ever more centralized and powerful criminal syndicates, who may ultimately succeed in undermining public morals, neutralizing law enforcement through corruption and infiltrating the legal economy unless appropriate countermeasures are taken.

Nevertheless, the increasing corruption and repression characterizing the Somoza rule and the likelihood that the Sandinistas would emerge victorious ultimately influenced Archbishop Miguel Obando y Bravo to declare formal support for the Sandinistas ' armed struggle.

Shortly after Impellitteri's succession, the Brooklyn District Attorney arrested bookie Harry Gross and launched a corruption scandal that ultimately caused nearly 500 police officers of all ranks to resign, retire, or be fired.

These various manifestations of corruption can ultimately present a danger for the public health ; they can discredit specific, essential institutions or social relationships.

But while the Orthodox Church sees corruption of doctrine and authority in the Catholic Church just as the Protestants do, they view Protestantism as essentially " throwing the baby out with the bathwater ", ultimately separating themselves from the Truth to a larger degree than the Catholics.

The concept of tensegrity structures as a metaphor for political self-supporting structures, in particular those related to corruption or ' hold over ' effects, has been used by Senator Stuart Syvret ( States of Jersey ) to explain the persistence and ultimately weakness of such structures.

The French word is itself a corruption of the Italian coltellaccio, or " large knife ," derived ultimately from Latin cultellus meaning " small knife.

... first he raised the money required to blunt French hegemony in Europe and thus preserved the British constitution and the protestant monarchy ; second he was instrumental in planning the military and diplomatic strategy that ultimately defeated Louis XIV ; third, as lord high treasurer, he worked to make the Treasury more efficient and attempted to weed out corruption — the Treasury as he left it served England well for the remainder of the eighteenth century ; fourth he was instrumental in negotiating and passing the Act of Union with Scotland which created the united kingdom of Great Britain ; and fifth he negotiated the creation of a unified East India Company, which would be instrumental in establishing British rule in India.

New Deal administrators ultimately removed Murray from his oversight role, charging corruption in aid distribution, failure to meet employment quotas, and the inability to determine local funding needs.

Torrijos and the PRD were ultimately hampered by the corruption scandals of the previous administration, as well as a scandal in which La Prensa reported that two members of his campaign had been bribed by Mobil to sell a former US military base.

There is a strong criticism of Modernization in Africa due to a major problem with governmental corruption that has ultimately slowed the development of African countries through wars and illegitimate financial activities that keep money out of the hands of the people.

Astronaut Angela Perry must deal with her Senator father's corruption that would ultimately destroy her family.

Rangel played a key role in the 1993 impeachment of President Carlos Andrés Pérez, being the first to publish ( in November 1992 ) the corruption allegations which would ultimately be endorsed by the Supreme Court.

The word is a Middle English corruption of the ultimately Greek word for breath ( ).

The situation was compounded by Tewfik's perceived corruption and mismanagement and ultimately culminated in the Orabi Revolt.

Or My Mom Will Shoot, Stallone's previous high-profile attempts at branching out of the one-dimensional action star roles, both of which ultimately ended up commercially unsuccessful, critically panned, and often ridiculed, Cop Land with its star-studded heavyweight ensemble cast was met with high expectations as a multifaceted story based around corruption on the New York City police force.

However trasformismo fed into the debates that the Italian parliamentary system was failing and weak, it ultimately became associated with corruption.

In 2010, he was found guilty of five charges of official corruption and five charges of perjury and, ultimately, jailed for an additional seven years.