S P Huntington- Modernization & Corruption DOCX

Title	S P Huntington- Modernization & Corruption
Author	Rahman Mizan
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1 “ If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow in the same ratio in which the equality of conditions is increased ” Samuel p Huntington Introduction Corruption is behavior of public officials which deviates from accepted norms in order to serve private ...

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1 " If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow in the same ratio in which the equality of conditions is increased " Samuel p Huntington Introduction Corruption is behavior of public officials which deviates from accepted norms in order to serve private ends. Corruption obviously exists in all societies, but it is obviously more common in some societies than in others and more common at some times in the evolution of a society than at other times. Political life in eighteenth-century America and in twentieth-century America, it would appear, was less corrupt than in nineteenth- century America. So also political life in seventeenth- century Britain and in late nineteenth-century Britain was, it would appear, less corrupt than it was in eighteenth- century Britain. Corruption is one of the greatest challenges of the contemporary world. It undermines good government, fundamentally distorts public policy, leads to the misallocation of resources, harms the private sector and private sector development and particularly hurts the poor. Concept of Corruption The word "Corruption" comes from the Latin verb "corrupts" which literally means a broken object. Conceptually, Corruption is a form of behavior, which depart form ethics, morality, tradition, laws and civil virtue. Corruption has recently been the subject of substantial theorizing and empirical research, and this has produced a bewildering array of alternative approaches, explanations, typologies and remedies. Definition of Corruption Webster Dictionary describes corruption as morality, a state of decomposition, dishonest, rotten, pollute, immoral and bad. A definition has been found in a publication of the World Bank- "Corruption practice refers to the act of offering, giving, receiving or soliciting anything of value with the aim of influencing the action of a public official in the procurement process or the contract execution". Corruption = monopoly + Discretion –Accountability – Salary....