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Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. Louis A. Picard. Corruption: The Problem. Defined: Pursuit of Personal Interests above Public Responsibility Goal: Control not Elimination of Corruption Corruption is Contextual. Corruption.

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Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

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  1. Graduate School of Public and International Affairs Louis A. Picard

  2. Corruption: The Problem • Defined: Pursuit of Personal Interests above Public Responsibility • Goal: Control not Elimination of Corruption • Corruption is Contextual

  3. Corruption • The English Government was “a loaded compost heap of corrupt influence” Edmund Burke 1729-1797

  4. Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke

  5. Understanding Corruption • Structural Issues • Cultural Interpretations • Social Contract • Life Boat Ethics

  6. Structural Issues • Lobbying Legislatures Accepted • Influencing Authoritarian Executive Branch called corruption • Functional Equivalent

  7. Finley Peter Dunne Quoting Mr. Dooley: "A man that would expect to train lobsters to fly in a year is called a lunatic; but a man that thinks men can be turned into angels by an election is a reformer & remains at large." "If you go to the zoo, always take something to feed the animals, even if the signs say 'Do Not Feed Animals'. It wasn't the animals that put them signs up."

  8. Cultural Interpretations • Views of “The Gift” • “Honor to the Honorable” • First Cut of the Harvest

  9. Social Contract • Civil Servants: Sacrifice Wealth for Middle Class Benefits- Education, Health and Life Style • Society- Guarantees the Life Style • In most LDCs the Social Contract is Broken

  10. Life Boat Ethics: Food, Health and Education • Who is more Important? • Your Family? Your Neighbor’s Family • A Family with a Different Language and/or a different religion

  11. “Poverty Shortens a man’s (sic) time horizon and maximizes the effectiveness of short term material inducements” 1969 James C. Scott

  12. Discussion Daniel Bergner, In the Land of Magic Soldiers (New York: Picador, 2003), pp.66-125.

  13. “They (Sierra Leoneans and the International Community) had ravaged the nation together.” Where do we place Corruption within the Context of Sierra Leone? Corruption

  14. The Missionary Factor • What obligations did the Missionaries have during the Sierra Leone Civil War? • Should the Family have left? • What obligations did they have to their own Children?

  15. Discussion: Peter Goodwin, Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa (New York: Grove Press, 1996), pp. 74-114.

  16. Discussion • Are conditions in Zimbabwe different from Sierra Leone? • How does one address discussions of Witchcraft from an ethical perspective?

  17. Race and Ethics • “Contraception, the guerillas said, was a white man’s conspiracy to reduce the black population.” • Is there a double standard with regard to corruption? • Are discussions of corruption “racist?”

  18. Zimbabwe: Mugabe Hands Out Cars President Robert Mugabe gave out 450 cars to senior and midlevel doctors at government hospitals in what opponents say is a vote-buying campaign ahead of Saturday’s presidential election. Mr. Mugabe presented doctors with keys to the cars at a ceremony in which he blamed Western sanctions for harming health care in Zimbabwe, one of the countries worst affected by H.I.V./AIDS. He also promised the doctors houses within two years. By REUTERS Published: March 28, 2008

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