Political Corruption In Political Politics

Political corruption is a major issue in political science whose definition requires careful analysis and evaluation based on available evidence from multiple points of view. The two academic articles chosen for this paper include Balachandrudu’s (2006) paper on the nature of political corruption and McAllister’s (2014) paper on the effects of corruption on Australian political institutions. Balachandrudu (2006) provides a detailed analysis of the constituents of corruption, its various definitions, and the implications in the democratic Indian society as a case study. McAllister (2014) utilizes a quantitative approach to measure and analyze corruption using bribery and perceptions of the people through extensive surveys. I would like to present

They both recognize, Balachandrudu more than McAllister, although McAllister (2014) is a more applied article, that the need for accumulation of power is inherent in human conditioning which leads to corruption among government officials, politicians, and even the common peasant is drawn into this far from ideal system. Both the authors attempt to explain Political Corruption in the context of two different but democratic states: India and Australia. Although India is a more heterogeneous society with different tribes, languages, and cultures, the influx of Corruption into the political arena, whereby rulers extend their official channels to feed their own and their supporters’ interests at the expense of their duties for the public who elected for them (Balachandrudu, 2006). Similarly, McAllister explains the idea of increase in perceived levels of Political Corruption in the five major states of Australia, which he attributes to the increase in number of official commissions deployed to investigate any bribery