POLS 3440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sponsorship Scandal, Cronyism, Wolters Kluwer
9 Jan 2017
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Fraud the theft of money, goods or services by a person in a position of public trust. Bribery offering or accepting illegal payment of money, goods or services in exchange for favours rendered or promised. Influence-peddling accepting an advantage or non-monetary benefit in exchange for a favour. Lying deliberately misleading the public, as in the reasons given by u. s. presidents to justify the wars in vietnam and iraq. Conflict-of-interest when elected representatives or public officials put themselves a position where they (or their families) receive a private benefit from decisions they take in their public capacity. A conflict-of-interest may be a real conflict, as in the sinclair stevens case, or it may simply be an apparent conflict, as created by paul martin"s family ownership of canada steamship lines when he was minister of finance. Both real and apparent conflicts should be avoided. Patronage can be extremely corrupt, even illegal (example: sponsorship scandal)
