Corruption
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"Corruption is a general concept describing any organized, interdependent system in which part of the system is either not performing duties it was originally intended to, or performing them in an improper way, to the detriment of the system's original purpose." [W][edit] Usage
Issuepedia's main interest in corruption has to do with the corruption of the tools and systems of governance, i.e. corruption of authority. This can be divided into two major categories: illegal corruption (bribery, extortion, etc.), and legal corruption (cronyism, nepotism, buying of influence).
Lessigian corruption is a specific subset of legal corruption, i.e. the legal buying of influence, typically via lobbyists.
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Need a page for "Lessigian corruption"; at least one of the filed links belongs there instead of here, along with the Lessig wiki link.
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- Wikipedia
- Conservapedia: one-sentence article (as of 2008-03-02); specifically refers to the non-Lessigian variety (illegal)
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dKosopedia: no equivalent article (as of 2008-03-02), though many references - SourceWatch: stub article and a substantial category listing (as of 2008-03-02)
- Lessig Wiki: specifically about Lessigian corruption
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- 2008-03-01 /S/D/ My Forbidden Fruits (and Vegetables) describes how legislation is designed to keep the local food movement from catching on. “Why? Because national fruit and vegetable growers based in California, Florida and Texas fear competition from regional producers like myself. Through their control of Congressional delegations from those states, they have been able to virtually monopolize the country’s fresh produce markets.”
- 2007-12-20 /S/D/ "Angry Black Man" Does GOTV “The calls were extremely highly targeted, household by household, no message ever left on an answering machine. We wanted the message heard only by people whose reaction would be "I'm not voting for Holt because he uses scary black men to call my house."”
- 2007-12-19 /S/D/ Bush Lawyers Discussed Fate of Tapes “At least four top White House lawyers took part in discussions with the Central Intelligence Agency between 2003 and 2005 about whether to destroy videotapes showing the secret interrogations of two operatives from Al Qaeda, according to current and former administration and intelligence officials. .. The accounts indicate that the involvement of White House officials in the discussions before the destruction of the tapes in November 2005 was more extensive than Bush administration officials have acknowledged.”
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- User:Woozle/soft drink hard sell: anti-competitive but probably quite legal monetary influence in the soft drink biz; I propose transparency as a solution
