According to Cambridge dictionary the definition of corruption is "illegal, bad or dishonest behavior, especially by people in positions of power". ... I found a very long queue, waiting for my turn I found that people were shaking hands with the officer and giving him money each gives what he can and get their right. ... After three weeks, I started to lose hope I am forced to do what others do but what makes me even crazier is that we are in a country during development even if there are not the basis for developing, the people do not want to develop by giving up those bad manner and public ...

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(McFaul, 2002) This was followed by a very significant phase in the progression of democratization, when most of the countries that were part of the Soviet Union started to move away from authoritarianism and entered what today is called, the transition period. ... All three entered the transition period after the fall of communism and moved towards constitutionalising democracy. ... This involved the raid on the former Prime Minister, Nečas' offices and the arrest of eight people involved due to an extraordinary spying and corruption scandal. ... The (Transparency International, 2014) s...

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Pluralism enhances the Madisonian view of government because the multi-party system creates distributed declarations and power throughout special interest groups, but the pluralist theory does not accommodate "We the People" in terms of all the people in the United States having equal influence because minority groups are constantly fighting against the will of the majority. ... We have pluralism to make sure that people's viewpoints are represented via factional groups that then transmit that viewpoint to the representatives in Congress and Senators. ... Sometimes the individual part...

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The notion of 'legitimacy' is too broad to be discussed as one concept, it covers input legitimacy, output legitimacy, legality, will of the people, democratic legitimacy as well as many more. ... Democracy is also supposed (in an ideal world) to be largely meritocratic and so one would hope the best people for the job would rise to the top while the general vote is supposed to represent the aggregate opinion of the people on the policies put forward. ... Such was the rationale of Lenin's Bolshevik (and then Communist) Party during the 1917 Russian revolution, where the party ...

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Each of these parties once again reflected its regional base in one of the country's main ethnic groups: The people's Democratic party representing the northern Hausa, the all people's party representing the eastern Igbo, and the alliance for democracy of the western Yoruba.... Only the 200 people who are a member of the Central Committee get to vote where all members run unopposed. ... The public is not allowed to vote, there is no election and hence different people cannot become political leaders and take part in the decision making of the country. In China, the people are al...

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It is interesting to note that in the resolution8 creating the the Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries, the UN Commission on Human Rights is "convinced that notwithstanding the way in which mercenaries or mercenary-related activities are used or the form they take to acquire some semblance of legitimacy, they are a threat to peace, security and the self-determination of peoples and an obstacle to the enjoyment of human rights by peoples". ... In this regard, "it requests its members to pay particular attention to the impact of the activities of private companies offering mil...

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