The Pros And Cons Of Nepotism

In looking at how political patronage and merit system and how they differ the answer is simple. However, there is much controversy in both. According to The Craft of Public Administration, written by George Berkley and John Rouse states that, “The selection of civil servants by merit and by political patronage are not mutually exclusives”. What this is basically saying is that while the two may have the same relation to each other political patronage and the merit system limits control and can exclude others from participation. In this paper I will discuss the history of political patronage and merit system, attempt to explain how they differ, and why both are of relative importance to the other.

When one acquires a position of extreme power, it is only a matter of time before it is maliciously abused for personal benefit. As socialized power, the power used to benefit others, transitions to personalized power, the principle of morality is lost as the leader becomes unable to discern from right and wrong.

One citizen in particular that thrives due to the corrupt system is Asha Waghekar. Asha comes from a childhood of rural poverty, and when she sees the opportunity to become part of the middle class, she takes it. However, this route is not the most noble of routes. She turns to political corruption in order to come out on top, and hopefully someday become Slumlord. Asha starts down her path of corruption, when she decides to start helping her neighbors solve their problems. She believes that “when she ha[s] real control over the slum, she could create problems in order to fix them … she’d learned [this] by studying the Corporator” (20). Asha’s way of thinking allows her to not only overcome the corruption in Annawadi, but become entrenched in it. She sees the good in this, because it allows her to skip all of the usual steps to make money. She is also able to reason it to herself, she states “[h]ow can anyone say I am doing wrong when the big people did all the papers—when the big people say that it’s right?” (228). Some people are able to reason corruption, in order to allow them to feel okay with it and Asha is one of those people. Fortunately for Asha, she is able to become one of the most powerful people in Annawadi. Therefore, Asha is able to use corruption to allow her to get ahead and take advantage of powerless individuals. Corruption is able to improve the lives of the

Voters are often rewarded with patronage jobs. However, patronage can result in poorer service to the

In most cultures, any visible formal power structure will lie over a more fundamental, less formal, structure of influence. This underlying power system will often be based on patron-client relations, in which patrons become influential by acquiring clients who owe them favors. Often, this takes a pyramid form as more powerful patrons acquire clients who have clients of their own. Interacting directly with this patron-client power system can be more effective than trying to deal with people in overt formal positions of power.

There are currently three procedures that are used to select judges. These methods are as follows: executive appointment, election, and merit selection. The goal is to use a process that picks the best judge or the most qualified and experienced. Each process has its pros and cons but there is one that easily stands out from the others.

The relationships between corruption, power and powerlessness cannot be derived into two equations. These entities cannot be separated nor weighed. Current and past, fictional and nonfictional events have recurred in order to reiterate the dangers of the relationship between power and powerlessness.

We are taught at a young age that books are full of lessons. The reader just needs to read between the lines. There is an Irish proverb that states, “You cannot open a book without learning something”. Books are full of information whether they are textbooks or children’s books.

As a customary way of life people must enter into social relationships with bankers, accountants, doctors, lawyers, brokers, and other white collar professionals to take advantage of the knowledge they possess. These social relationships are mostly successful as clients trust that these professional people are acting to their benefit. In other words, the social power given to them is transformed to economic power to acquire personal wealth.

“We glorify lust, greed, and pain we drown our hope in poison rain we point the finger, shift the blame Ambition makes us worst” –Motohead “March or Die”. Ambition is defined as an accomplishment or even a motivating factor for one's achievements. Everyone has an objective or dream that he or she wishes to achieve, but sometimes it is difficult to reach this without some sense of ambition. However, an extreme amount of ambition could lead a man to trust they need to go through outstanding measures good or bad to achieve their goals. Corruption and greed are the negative qualities of an ambitious person which is why ambition is a negative character trait rather than positive. Corruption and greed are negative traits

Behind every great leader is a system of hard workers, and their job is to guide them and provide them with opportunity. One ex-worker for Bell Pottinger, when discussing why the employees of the company would commit to corruption, explained, “Your boss tells you to do something, so you do it“ (Kale). The leaders of this organization did not guide their employees properly. Instead, they found that the employees would follow them blindly into the void - if they only asked. Corruption is found in a leader taking advantage of their

It would be convenient to start this research paper by stating that corruption is a challenge mainly for businesses in developing countries and that it is unrelated to the current affliction of the economy in the United States. It would also be convenient to claim corruption has declined in America as a result of awareness raising campaigns and the numerous anti-corruption laws. But none of those aforementioned statements would be true. Corruption is not the exception, but rather the rule in today’s business practices. In 2004, Daniel Kaufmann, a senior fellow at Brookings Institution and former director at the World Bank, calculated an index of "legally corrupt" manifestations which is defined as the extent of undue influence

The unlawful use of a person’s position while in power leads to multiple problems with today’s government. The corrupt methods politicians use are ideas that are strictly in place for personal gain. Present throughout history and still prevalent within today’s world, government corruption has consisted of a number of negative issues including bribery, economic and social impacts, and the misuse of power. Government’s role within daily life has been shown to have negative effects as seen in many aspects of life as well as in literature.

Corruption is a complex political, social, and economic anomaly that negatively affects developing and developed countries. It weakens democratic institutions, holds economic development, widening the rich-poor gap and certainly leads to governmental instability. The World Bank definition of corruption states that “…the abuse of public office for private gain”.

This does not set a good example for the employees and can be harmful to the future of the company. Ensuring that bribery stops can solve many of the problems discussed above. Some feasible solutions are being recommended to help the company in both short term and long term. First of all, all employees including managers should be given training and education about bribery, corruption and what’s deemed illegal according to the law. Explicit measures should be suggested on how they can avoid supporting corruption and also where they can report to in case a situation where dishonesty is involved arises.