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One researcher contends that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, corruption in the wealthy, industrialized United States in some ways resembled corruption in impoverished developing nations today. Political machines manipulated voters to place candidates in power loyal to the machines. Public offices were sold for money or political support.
He used statistics to show that people see news content as neutral, fair, or biased based on its relation to news sources that report opposite views. Kim labeled this phenomenon HMP (hostile media phenomenon). His results show that people are likely to process content in defensive ways based on the framing of this content in other media. [231]
'America is in serious trouble': Robert Kiyosaki warns the US is broke, bankrupt, and our dollar is 'trash' — says that printing money to solve problems can't go on much longer.
Political corruption is the use of powers by government officials or their network contacts for illegitimate private gain. Forms of corruption vary but can include bribery, lobbying, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, parochialism, patronage, influence peddling, graft, and embezzlement.
Or does power change people for the worse? Research provides some evidence for the latter, suggesting that power makes people greedier and less socially appropriate. Show comments
When a former congressman gets arrested by the FBI and charged with 28 counts of wire fraud, money laundering and making illegal campaign contributions, that should be a huge deal.. In Fresno, it ...
Kleptocracy (from Greek κλέπτης kléptēs, "thief", or κλέπτω kléptō, "I steal", and -κρατία-kratía from κράτος krátos, "power, rule"), also referred to as thievocracy, [1] [2] is a government whose corrupt leaders (kleptocrats) use political power to expropriate the wealth of the people and land they govern, typically by embezzling or misappropriating government ...
The quote does not appear in the author’s written works, but has some structural similarities to a quote from the 1942 essay “Rudyard Kipling.” Our fact-check sources: