Changing Contours of Corruption in Western Political Thought, c. 1200-1700
Changing Contours of Corruption in Western Political Thought, c. 1200-1700
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西方政治思想中腐败轮廓的变化，c。
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2012
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Bruce Buchan
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虽然“腐败”的概念在西方政治思想史上扮演了重要角色，但它很少引起持续的分析。今天，腐败通常被用来指公职中的某种轻罪。在当代新自由主义经济思想中，政府的主要目标是确保以外国投资为基础的健康国内经济的要求，其中包括消除“腐败”（见国际货币基金组织，1997年）。腐败在这里指的是威胁破坏政府和经济分离的行为形式，并造成浪费性成本（Dearden，2003年）。这种腐败的技术官僚观点在最近的文献中根深蒂固（Nicholls等人，2006; Nye，2002; Rose-Ackerman，1999; Shah，2006）。这一术语目前最常用来描述那些活动，如贿赂或为决定公共决策而提出的其他私人诱惑，在这些活动中，公职人员为了私人利益，通常是金钱利益，违反规则或法律。
While the concept of ‘corruption’ has played a prominent part in the history of Western political thought, it has rarely excited sustained analysis. Today, corruption is usually used to refer to a particular kind of misdemeanour in public office. In contemporary neo-liberal economic thought, a primary aim of governments is to secure the requirements for a healthy domestic economy underpinned by foreign investment, and among these requirements is the elimination of ‘corruption’ (see International Monetary Fund, 1997). Corruption here denotes forms of behaviour that threaten to subvert the separation of government and economy, and impose wasteful costs (Dearden, 2003). This technocratic view of corruption is well entrenched in recent literature (Nicholls, et al., 2006; Nye, 2002; Rose-Ackerman, 1999; Shah, 2006). The term itself is most often used today to describe those activities, such as bribery or other private inducements offered to determine public decisions, in which public officials violate rules or laws for the sake of private, usually pecuniary, gain.