Corruption is defined as "the abuse of public power for private gain."
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This is way too thin a definition of corruption. It concedes too much to methodological individualism.
Ian
The definition seems pretty good to me. What's "methodological individualism"?
Joanna
http://www.odiousdebts.org/odiousdebts/index.cfm?DSP=subcontent&AreaID=163Alexander Sack, the author and legal scholar of the doctrine of odious debts, included in his definition of odious debts, "loans incurred by members of the government or by persons or groups associated with the government to serve interests manifestly personal -- interests that are unrelated to the interests of the State." Source:
