| 单词 | corruption |
| 释义 | corruption The use of bribery to influence politicians, civil servants and other officials. Bribes may be in cash or in kind; almost any official action or inaction can be influenced by corruption. Officials may have to be bribed to do things they are legally supposed to do anyway, or to do them promptly. They may be bribed to neglect their duties, to the advantage, for example, of speculative builders putting up flats without planning permission and in disregard of building regulations. Officials or politicians with discretion over decisions, such as the location of public works, can be bribed to exercise it in particular ways. Corruption can be used to influence elections, or to get laws changed. (In the nineteenth century, one US state was described as having ‘the best legislature money can buy’.) Corruption is extremely bad for social efficiency: it undermines public confidence that decisions will be sensible, or that laws will be either fair or consistently enforced. Many countries make corruption inevitable by paying their civil servants and police so poorly that they cannot live without taking bribes. |
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