they are not handing money to a government official (personally) in order to get what they want, and I want to reserve the word "corruption" for things like tha

they are not handing money to a government official (personally) in order to get what they want, and I want to reserve the word "corruption" for things like that. Can we call it institutionalized corruption then, when the handing of money to policitians is made legal through PACs?