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Today, opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is in jail on dubious sodomy charges; the government has passed legislation that essentially authorizes it to detain critics indefinitely; and Prime Minister Najib Razak remains embroiled in multiple economic and political
scandals.
LONDON – The question of the West’s relationship with Russia has been buried by media stories of hacking, sex scandals, and potential blackmail.
Of course, corruption
scandals
involving high-ranking Chinese officials are common.
In all four countries, major
scandals
have erupted, with high-level government officials and business leaders being denounced by the media, the justice system, foreign governments, and/or the local opposition.
Though none of the governments implicated in the
scandals
will collapse – at least not exclusively because of corruption – the sheer scale of the social and political protest, not to mention legal action, is astonishing.
It began with accusations of influence-peddling against Bachelet’s son and daughter-in-law, and continued with the emergence of other scandals, possibly involving cabinet ministers and other aides.
This was compounded by a crisis of conduct, as
scandals
broke out over the misselling of financial products, global currency manipulation, and the rigging of the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor, the benchmark interest rate that some banks charge one another for short-term loans).
As they emerged on the political stage, the left was failing: the economy did not improve, unemployment remained high, and the SLD, which attracted all kinds of riffraff, became mired in corruption
scandals.
The
scandals
provided the right with an opportunity to deliver a coup de grace to the SLD in the form of parliamentary investigative commissions.
All the rest –
scandals
large and small, marijuana smoke, and errors of grammar – divert journalists but influence the results little.
For, despite the rampant scandals, “national Silvio” (“Il Silvio Nazionale”) remains by far Italy’s most popular and successful politician (though his approval ratings have now dipped below the 50% mark in opinion polls for the first time since his second return to the premiership in 2008).
So far, there have been few open
scandals.
An Economic Platform for US DemocratsCAMBRIDGE – When American voters head to the polls for congressional midterm elections in November, their choices seem likely to be guided more by “pocketbook issues” than by foreign affairs or President Donald Trump’s
scandals.
The corruption
scandals
have already reached the highest levels of Brazilian society.
But while many observers have focused on the scandals’ short-term political and economic fallout, it is worth remembering what Brazil stands to gain by exposing corruption and punishing offenders.
At least among major corporations,
scandals
like the one at Volkswagen would then become increasingly rare.
The 1907 panic started in the United States, owing to a rise in interest rates as farmers in the West were paid for their crops and financial
scandals
in New York that seemed to implicate a large financial institution, the Knickerbocker trust.
Scandals
– from conspiracies to fix key financial rates to the discovery of horsemeat in the food supply – undermine people’s faith in business as an agent of the greater good.
A better approach would have been to appoint a high-level committee to investigate the allegations – a strategy that Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has repeatedly employed to defuse public anger over corruption
scandals.
The history of legislative reform is substantially a punctuated equilibrium, with long periods of time during which public apathy prevents any progress, interrupted by
scandals
that suddenly make progress possible.
We have to hope that the same kind of outcome will emerge from the financial
scandals
that have produced public outrage analogous to that directed at the food industries in Upton Sinclair’s day.
The party’s caucus in the House of Representatives made it their order of business to try to gut an independent ethics committee established in the wake of
scandals
a decade ago.
In the Italian case, following the corruption
scandals
that have nearly sunk Il Calcio, Italy’s premier football league, the national team had to rehabilitate the game in the eyes of their fellow citizens.
Free the RegulatorsCorporate accounting
scandals
- indeed, the economic history of the last decade - demonstrate that global financial markets need politically independent regulatory agencies.
The attack on Syria seems to have distracted public attention from Trump’s
scandals
only temporarily, given Comey’s coming high-profile book tour.
In one of the greatest doping
scandals
of the twenty-first century, Lance Armstrong, seven-time Tour de France winner, was found to have used it after years of denial.
Indeed, as recent phone-hacking
scandals
involving Rupert Murdoch’s defunct News of the World newspaper demonstrated, unchecked self-regulation risks inviting abuse.
So far, Trump’s political base – representing about 35% of eligible voters – has stuck with him, despite the
scandals
and the mess the Republicans and he have made of their agenda, particularly the repeal of former President Barack Obama’s signature health-care reform.
In recent years, automated programs based on biased data sets have caused numerous
scandals.
Last year's Vivendi and this year's Parmalat
scandals
have seen to that.
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