Corruption
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"Corrupt" redirects here. For other uses, see Corrupt (disambiguation).
Corruption may refer to:
- Putrefaction, the decomposition of recently-living bio-matter. Other meanings of the term use this as a metaphor.
- Political corruption, the dysfunction of a political system or institution in which government officials, political officials or employees seek illegitimate personal gain through actions such as bribery, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, patronage, graft, and embezzlement.
- Political corruption is a specific form of rent seeking (not to be confused with property rental), where access to politics is restricted by limited transparency, limited competition and domination of narrow interests.
- Political corruption tends to be more extensive in developing countries, where safeguards such as a well-paid, merit-based civil service, investigative journalism, and other accountability mechanisms aren't well developed.
- Corporate corruption, the abuse of power by corporate managers against shareholders or consumers.
- Data corruption, an unintended change to data in storage or in transit.
- Linguistic corruption, the change in meaning to a language or a text introduced by cumulative errors in transcription as changes in the language speakers' comprehension.
- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, a Wii game
- Business model, often mistaken for investment business model. Patronage allows elders (patrons) to be first to consume rents. After patrons consume rents according to personal or group criteria, remaining rents are then distributed according to the patron's criteria. The patronage business model can therefore occur as a corruption of the investment business model. However, the patronage business model is separate and distinct from the investment business model.
