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However, some events – such as a wave of corporate
scandals
or a stock market crash – can interrupt the ordinary pro-insider operations of interest-group politics by leading ordinary citizens to pay attention corporate governance failures.
In the US, for example, new securities laws were passed following the stock market crash of 1929, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was adopted in 2002, in the immediate aftermath of the collapse of the Internet bubble and the Enron and WorldCom
scandals.
But that proposal fell apart, and, amid pressure from corruption
scandals
and falling commodity prices, Brazil left the global stage.
WASHINGTON, DC – As corruption
scandals
rattle Latin America, many observers are asking if the region will ever shake off its legacy of weak institutions.
Moreover, unlike in the past, today’s corruption
scandals
are being investigated and prosecuted with unprecedented independence.
Sex and SurveillanceNEW YORK – It is impossible to hear about sexual or sex-crime
scandals
nowadays – whether that involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn or those of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, or the half-dozen United States congressmen whose careers have ended in the past couple of years – without considering how they were exposed.
The spate of sex
scandals
is a sign of more serious corruption and degradation than most commentators seem to realize.
And, because sex
scandals
are always interesting to read about – certainly compared to yet another undeclared war, or a bailout that created jobs costing an estimated $850,000 each – they will always be useful diversions.
If the Olympics turn out to be a public relations disaster – because of potential protests by Tibetan, Uighur, or Falun Gong activists or supporters, a lockdown in China of foreign journalists, or even doping
scandals
– there is a real chance that the Chinese will blame the West, particularly America.
Many of the great political
scandals
of recent decades began with the financing of parties and candidates.
And corruption
scandals
and the related risks of political turmoil were unsettling, to say the least, in the months prior to last year’s Communist Party leadership transition.
As the Congress-led national government (of which I am a member) reeled under a series of political and financial scandals, the BJP increasingly sought to position itself as the obvious national alternative.
The BJP’s record in government – flagrant financial malfeasance, a procession of Chief Ministers, charges of nepotism and crony capitalism, real-estate and mining scandals, policy paralysis, and a free rein to Hindu-chauvinist groups (who attacked pubs, assaulted girls for “indecency,” and disrupted Valentine’s Day) – elicited a decisive rebuke from the electorate.
Moreover, after a series of
scandals
cost Abe some newly appointed ministers, some fear that he may no longer be willing to follow through on the liberalizing structural reforms – the so-called “third arrow” of Abenomics – that sustained economic recovery requires.
The trial of the Sewol’s captain, the apparent suicide of its owner, and a series of
scandals
involving beatings and bullying leading to death and suicide among army conscripts have cost Park key ministerial resignations, and have created a pervasive sense of unease about how the country is governed.
Continuing excesses and repeated
scandals
show that the culture of finance has not really changed.
At the end of 1997, the second Klaus government collapsed under the weight of financial
scandals.
Indeed, the quality of governance in Catalonia – where countless corruption
scandals
pervade cornerstone institutions – is more in line with that of Portugal.
Moreover, mistakes in Africa during the 1990’s, particularly in Rwanda, together with corruption scandals, have put pressure on French leaders to bring dramatic changes in foreign policy.
But this top-down approach has proven ineffective, as
scandals
at Uber and other tech firms have demonstrated.
Let us hope that, emerging out of today's scandals, there will be a renewed commitment to live up to these ideals and to strengthen the institutions that were designed to enforce them.
Elected and unelected government officials alike, including cabinet ministers, members of parliament, and civil servants, were implicated in corruption
scandals.
For many who supported him, he was the lesser of two evils: his rival was backed by two powerful politicians implicated in corruption
scandals.
But when Trump’s antics have lost their novelty, the administration will have to find new ways to divert our attention from his current and past
scandals.
Throughout the Indian parliament’s recent winter session, the opposition (I am a leader of its largest party, the BJP) demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to inquire into a seemingly endless series of public
scandals.
And if political
scandals
were export goods, Brazil would have a clear comparative advantage.
The Enron and Worldcom scandals, after all, occurred in countries with long histories as market economies.
In a final effort to reduce the impact of all these scandals, Toledo published an open letter, declaring that none of his brothers were authorized to represent him.
Corporate
scandals
often reveal where business and government are too close for comfort, as when senior members of Toshiba’s executive team and board, for example, sit on Japanese government panels and commissions.
Despite a few
scandals
and assorted other problems, the Czechs succeeded beyond even the most optimistic expectations.
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