Corruption and its consequences

Trading legitimacy: everyday corruption and its consequences for medical regulation in southern Vietnam.

Government regulation of health professionals is believed to ensure the efficacy and expertise of practitioners for and on behalf of patients. Certification and licensing are two common means to do so, legalizing a physician to practice medicine. However, ethnography from Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) suggests that in corrupt socioeconomic environments, certification and licensing can alternatively p...

The Basic Theorem and its Consequences

Let T be a compact Hausdorff topological space and let M denote an n–dimensional subspace of the space C(T ), the space of real–valued continuous functions on T and let the space be equipped with the uniform norm. Zukhovitskii [7] attributes the Basic Theorem to E.Ya.Remez and gives a proof by duality. He also gives a proof due to Shnirel’man, which uses Helly’s Theorem, now the paper obtains a...

Covid-19 and its Psychological Consequences

In December 2019, a new type of coronavirus was identified in Wuhan, China, and spread rapidly throughout China. The spread of Covid-19 was unique due to its rapid transmission, which created an emergency situation in global health in less than a few months around the world. It not only causes general health concerns, but also causes a number of psychological illnesses, including anxiety, fear,...

Corruption in public procurement Causes, consequences and cures

Popular Interpretations of ‘corruption’ and Their Partisan Consequences

Using a large six-city exit poll from 2000, we examine popular judgments of what constitutes ‘‘political corruption’’ in the United States. We find two distinct evaluative dimensions: corruption understood as lawbreaking, and corruption as favoritism. These judgments are heavily conditioned by the voter’s socioeconomic background and are politically consequential. Subjective understandings of ‘...