... conditions. These conditions are the result of a strategy where financial incentives for local government officials are provided to enliven local economies. Essentially, many local governments now act as if they were the headquarters for local territorial corporations. The pervasive role of officials in local entrepreneurships has nurtured extensive corruption of the political system. Localities often ... shield corporations from the effective application of environmental and civil rights protection laws because local environmental and civil rights officials are administratively under t...

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