WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Political corruption is the abuse of public power, office, or resources by elected government officials for personal gain, by extortion, soliciting or offering bribes. It can also take the form of office holders maintaining themselves in office by purchasing votes by enacting laws which use taxpayers’ money.

Detailed explanation-2: -“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority.” “Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.”

Detailed explanation-3: -As Lord Acton famously expressed it, “power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” But it’s not entirely true. Last year at the World Economic Forum in Davos, I wanted to understand the impact of power on people.