Corruption in Brazilian Government

Abstract

This paper discusses the subject of corruption in the Brazilian government in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on Corruption and its relation with Brazilian government and economy. The research also analyzes many aspects of corruption and tries to gauge its effect on the Brazilian society.

Table of Contents

Abstractii

Introduction1

Thesis Statement1

Background1

Corruption in Brazilian Government2

Recommendations6

Conclusion6

End Notes8

Corruption in Brazilian Government

Introduction

Corruption is the misuse of a public trust. It most often happens between a constituent of a society's top class or elites and a public official. This makes it difficult to battle with traditional assesses of the criminal law. Corruption practices change over time as the patterns of public life and governance change. Accordingly, the concept of corruption has modified through evolution in the lesson sense of public opinion. This dynamic, intangible, and value-based feature of the concept makes the static, authorized recording of statistics on the subject inappropriate. Sociologists should gaze at corruption as a component of genuine social truth, trying to understand the broader structure of social institutions in which corruption plays significant social functions.

This paper aims at analyzing the corruption situation that Brazil faces within its governmental structure and economy and the subsequent impacts on its society.

Thesis Statement

“Despite Brazil's transition to democracy, corruption continues to grow in its various institutions, posing a real threat to the global status of the country”.

Background

The word corruption comes from the Latin “corruptus” that in a first sense, means broken into pieces and in a second sense, rotten, putrid. Therefore, the verb “corrupt” means to make putrid, rotten.

Defined broadly, political corruption means the illegal use - on the part of rulers, public officials and private actors - the political and financial organizations or government agencies in order to transfer income from public or private way for certain individuals or criminal groups and individuals connected by ties of common interest - e.g., business, place of residence, ethnicity or religious faith.

Political corruption implies that the laws and government policies are used to benefit the corrupt economic agents (those who give and those who take bribes) and not the population of the country as a whole. Corruption causes economic distortions in the public sector directing the investment areas as education, health and safety projects in areas where fees and commissions are higher, such as building roads and hydroelectric plants. Moreover, the need to hide the corrupt business leads public and private agents to increase the technical complexity of these projects and, therefore, its cost. This further distorts investment. For this reason, the quality of government services and infrastructure decreases. On the other hand, corruption increases the pressure on the government budget. Then, this pressure is reflected on the society with increasing levels of taxation, fees and taxes.

With so many cases come to public knowledge cannot help but notice the discredit of Brazilian politics. One of the major factors discredited that widespread corruption is almost endemic in all branches of the Brazilian political and economic activities.

Corruption in Brazilian Government

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