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To the best of my knowledge this doesn't happen so much in more functional democracies. It seems to be more of an anglophone thing.
by hkt 3y ago
To the best of my knowledge this doesn't happen so much in more functional democracies. It seems to be more of an anglophone thing.
- Aperocky 3y agoThis is a product of incentives encouraged by the system (i.e. a federal republic), it has nothing to do with languages.
- hkt 3y agoIt has much to do with culture though - which is transmitted via language.
- Pet_Ant 3y agoI think it's more like culture carries language with it. Along with other things, but language is one of the more recognizable ones.
- jameshart 3y agoSeems like it’s under-studied (due to anglophone bias in the English language political science world probably) - but comparative political science is a discipline, and this paper suggests it’s a matter of single-member districts rather than the nature of the constitutional arrangement: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0010414090022004004 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0010414090022004004 (I would just emphasize, before anyone complains, that the Federal Republic of Germany is very much a federal republic.)
- titzer 3y agoCorruption is a kind of decay that afflicts institutions. Explicit rules, transparency, checks and balances, and consequences for violating the rules are the only thing that can prevent, or diagnose, or treat corruption. Where you find corruption is where one or more of these things is lacking. It has absolutely nothing to do the -acry or -ism attached to a society, institution, or group.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> Corruption is a kind of decay that afflicts institutions. It can be, but often its often the project of a substantial subset of the people creating institutions, so its misleading and romanticizing the past to view it as “decay”.
- titzer 3y agoI am no way suggesting that corruption is a new thing. It is an erosive force that has always operated throughout history. The amount of corruption in an institution tends to increase unless specifically rooted out. It goes up and down over time as institutions rise and fall or fade in obsolescence.