How is it possible for corrupt individuals to maintain stability and govern? ... Hannah Arendt would look at it from another perspective; individualism being the main force. ... According to Machiavelli, "Where the individual are not corrupt, conflicts and other crises do no harm; where they are corrupt, the best-planned laws are useless, unless the laws are imposed by someone who uses ruthless methods to make people obey him, until the individuals themselves become good.... This is exactly the cause of corruption when a leader needs to use force to implement laws until the people themse...

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Corruption pervades the Mexican political system and is most conspicuous at lower level of Government, particularly among the police force. Because officers are only paid what the corrupted government of Mexico can afford, they have a higher incentive to accept bribes. ... Further, it is inevitable that a portion of that money in the first payoff transaction will only end up being redistributed into other corrupt governmental sector's over and over again. ...

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The region had been a hotspot for civilian hatred to corrupt governments. ... Under the Information Technology Act, the government can legally force companies, including social networking sites, to filter anything it does not approve of. ...

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These characteristics are disheartening, to say the least, not only in that it is unfair to force the people of this country to live in these circumstances, but also in that these traits are the opposite of those necessary for a democratic society to prevail. ... This change to the oil market along with the broadening of the rest of the economy would give the Iraqi nation the financial strength needed to sustain most democratic governments, without allowing said government to become corrupt as a result of wealth. ...

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