POLITICAL CORRUPTION

Is Political Corruption An Inevitable Feature Of Public Life?



Is Political Corruption An Inevitable Feature Of Public Life?

Introduction

Ever since the beginning of world man has derived certain school of thoughts in accordance with which societies are organized. Evolving from these school of thoughts are certain standards and doctrines that surround our lives and thereby act as the prime foundations on which the world is organized. Politics is one of those foundations. As the political arena continues to change, one of the issues that has dominated these changes and still remains as seriously dangerous issue is political corruption. Corruption is an acute obstruction to growth, siphoning off resources exclusive to open public services and raising degrees of disappointment and marginalization of major fragments of the populations (Huntington and Moore, 1970,pp. 155 ) .In spite of the measure taken to reduce political corruption, the issue has shown negligible signs of being reduced. The patterns of corruption, however, vary in accordance with the society, its laws, regulations and values. Nevertheless, corruption exists in every society and in every form that one can think of. It is possible to reduce corruption, but to eliminate it is next to impossible task; hence it exists as inevitable feature and component of public life.

Discussion

The history of corruption extends back to the orientation of mankind; it has been there ever since human beings came in to existence and has deepened into the fabric of each and every society. It is impossible to eliminate it; however it can be curtailed (Almond, 2009, pp. 34). Leadership decides the extent of corruption within the political and social arena of country. If wrong and corrupted leaders are in power, the corruption will prevail. Corruption will forever manifest as long as there exist insatiable and self serving individuals in rankings of control and power. Attempting to annihilate corruption is pointless - it is going to always happen, either publicly or discreetly. The strategy is to never get spotted. Obsession about money in people is the leading cause of corruption.

Corrupt Leadership

The character of the political leaders is always judged by public. In reality the character of a political leaders is something that influences other factors (such as political stability and growth of country) too. Political figures are supposed to be people-centered and incorruptible. However, very few leaders are seen as incorruptible; several leaders exploit public for self benefit and use his power and manipulation for his own success.

There is noticeably recent curiosity about the types of leader-ship related to adverse consequences for public or other components of government. The fact that leadership is the core competency in any government or public structure that can help in prevalence or reduction of corruption cannot be denies. Destructive leadership is apparently surfacing as one of the most vivid contributor to corruption. A comprehensive cognitive schema of the adverse leadership can be defined as the recurrent and systematic actions by a political leader that violates the genuine and legit interest of the country and public ...