It was the first law specifically intended to begin the professional handling of the civil service. The creation of the first Civil Service Commission was the beginning of the end of the spoils system, or internal corruption of favors for promotion. The Pendleton Act called for a merit system for promotions within the service and ensured steadiness in federal employees from one administration to the next. In another area, Arthur signed the first Federal immigration law that excluded the poor, criminals, and the mentally ill. Congress also passed a Chinese Exclusion Act that would have made Chinese immigration illegal for twenty years and restricted citizenship to Chinese.
Many of the corrupt practices used in the
For example, the corrupted people can enjoy a better life but other is still get trouble on how to live a good life. The most dangerous effect of corruption is when judiciary is corrupted. Development, justice and civil society are based on law and justice, but in developing countries corrupted people uses law to justify their illegal behaviors. Otherwise, there are many cases that government officials cooperate with mafia in other developing countries.
For a business to set up shop in a developing country, they would first have to build and upkeep the infrastructure needed to, per se, extract oil. In consequence, it becomes “expensive and difficult to conduct even the most simple business,” because money that would be spent on the eradication of poverty would be spent on the upkeep of infrastructure needed to keep the business in the country (page 51). Third-world countries also have higher levels of governmental corruption. With government officials working in their own interest, and not that of the common individual or betterment of the country, it posses a hinderance in the lowering of poverty levels. Resources that a business would bring into a country, would be hoarded “by autocrats or bureaucrats or politicians rather than by the market” (page 85).
President Jimmy Carter signed the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 into law on December 19, 1977. The law was a reaction to bribery and corruption occurring in United States businesses. This paper will address many questions such as how does the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 impact society and business? Is the policy ethical? Has the policy been successful and efficient since its implementation?
Another problem plagued America around the same time; political patronage. The Pendleton Act partly destroyed this; it was enacted after President Garfield was assassinated by Charles Guiteau, A crazy man who thought he deserved a government job. The Pendleton Act sought to give government jobs based on Merit (Civil Service
Aligning itself economically and militarily with China has enabled the Nigerian regime to increase its military capability and capacity, giving it an asymmetric advantage over neighboring countries. The Nigerian regime’s attempts to obtain material for the construction of
The other countries made many unfair changes without the consent of the people. When the other country went to take over the colonized government they demoted the current government officials in order to make new laws that benefited them. As the British imperialized the country of Nigeria, they also wiped out a lot of Nigerian tradition. For an example, a lot of traditional Nigerian authority figures were replaced. Along with this many Nigerian homes were transferred
Moreover, money invested in the military diverts the need to build educational institutions and develop a properly functioning economy which Nigeria
Introduction On October 1st 1960 , British rule over Nigeria as a colony ended, as well as most of its official structure. Nigerian leaders were left with the task of taking up the leadership of the Nigerian people from the British with a promise of democratic rule; however within fifteen years after independence various institutions experienced great changes bringing great instability and uncertainty to the newly founded government. Northern and Southern regions of Nigeria both felt the impacts in education, politics, religion and ethnically. This causes one to wonder what the British Imperialistic government did differently, and why the difference between the Southern and Northern region became so evident in the fifteen years after independence.
“Military men would always overthrow one another, because they could, because they were all power drunk” (24) illustrates the internal governmental struggle in Nigeria during this book and a result of the “bloody coups of the sixties” (24). Nigeria is industrialized due to colonization of the British (Hurst) and is shown to be true as Papa owns a factory and newspaper branch known as “the Standard” (24). The industrialization of Nigeria is a direct effect from the colonization of Africa during the majority of the twentieth century. The colonization and the independence of Nigeria from Britain in 1960 led to an “ethnic tension in
A history of corruption can have an end. Liberia's hopes of being rescued from its misery were failed again and again. From elitist rule to bloody coups, the situation was horrible. However, there was a light in the darkness: the women of Liberia. The determined and influential women of Liberia helped initiate a series of changes that bettered the political state and human conditions of their country.
The rate of poverty and homelessness created a need for more economic opportunities. Colonies provided a chance for work and prosperity(Iweriebor, “The colonization of Africa”). Europeans lied to the Africans and made them sign what the Africans thought were peace treaties. Proverbs were among the many popular folkloric forms. Nigeria’s diverse past traditions provide many culture ideas(Gall, Hobby, “nigeria”).
Introduction Globalization is a fact of Economic Life – Carlos Salinas De Gortari. Globalization is not a new thought. This process of interaction and integration among the companies, people and government of different countries is happening from ages. Technology has been the major driver of globalization. Economic life has been transformed dramatically by the advances in information technology.
Low productivity and 7. Endemic corruption, greed. Given the Nigeria’s socio economic and political disposition Globalization presented more challenges for the country for it lacks what is needed to be relevant and deal with it untill the nation can achieve a certain measure of good governance, modest economic
