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Here, you don't have to bribe a low-level functionary simply to do their job (give you a birth certificate for your kid, for instance). Our corruption is only a
by koenigdavidmj 9y ago
Here, you don't have to bribe a low-level functionary simply to do their job (give you a birth certificate for your kid, for instance). Our corruption is only at the political level---still a problem, but different than the third world.
- evanlivingston 9y agoWhich do you think is better?
- JumpCrisscross 9y agoPretty much every study on societal stability, social measures and economic development says the American kind is better. (Search Google Scholar for well-cited intercountry studies of corruption.)
- evanlivingston 9y agoIt would be interesting to look at those countries that rank poorly and look at the effects of American global liberalism and try to understand how those countries are affected by the American kind of corruption.
- dragonwriter 9y agoSince the third world kind includes political corruption at an intense level as well as intense administrative corruption, I'm going to have to say the developed-world form with political corruption but without excessive administrative corruption.