Plato doubted that the majority of people were even capable of possessing the requisite moral and intellectual virtues required to play an important role in political institutions; hence his rejection in The Republic of democracy in favor of rule by philosopher-kings.
Corruption is the abuse of power by a public official for private gain”. No doubt the abuse of public offices for private gain is paradigmatic of corruption
Corruption is exemplified by a very wide and diverse array of phenomena of which bribery is only one kind, and nepotism another. (Think Hunter and the 'big guy')
Paradigm cases of corruption include A political party secures a majority vote by arranging for ballot boxes to be stuffed with false voting papers,
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