Political_corruption

context: Political corruption is the use of powers by government officials for illegitimate private gain. An illegal act by an officeholder constitutes political corruption only if the act is directly related to their official duties, is done under color of law or involves trading in influence.
qas: answers: text: political corruption
question: What do you call  government officials using power for illicit private gain?

answers: text: government officials
question: Who benefits from political corruption?

answers: text: their official duties
question: It is only considered political corruption if the act directly relates to what?

answers: text: influence
question: Trading in what is considered political corruption?

answers: text: Political corruption
question: What is it called when government officials use their power for private gain?

context: Forms of corruption vary, but include bribery, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, gombeenism, parochialism patronage, influence peddling, graft, and embezzlement. Corruption may facilitate criminal enterprise such as drug trafficking, money laundering, and human trafficking, though is not restricted to these activities. Misuse of government power for other purposes, such as repression of political opponents and general police brutality, is also considered political corruption.
qas: answers: text: corruption
question: Bribery and embezzelment are forms of what?

answers: text: criminal enterprise
question: Drug trafficking and money laundering are considered what?

answers: text: corruption
question: Repression of political opponants and police brutality are forms of political what?

answers: text: nepotism
question: One form of corruption involves the hiring of family members, which is called what?

answers: text: gombeenism
question: Another form of corruption, the practice of usury, is called what?

answers: text: human trafficking
question: Three forms of corruption that can promote criminal activities include drugs, money laundering, and what?

answers: text: political opponents
question: The repression of what is also considered political corruption?

context: The activities that constitute illegal corruption differ depending on the country or jurisdiction. For instance, some political funding practices that are legal in one place may be illegal in another. In some cases, government officials have broad or ill-defined powers, which make it difficult to distinguish between legal and illegal actions. Worldwide, bribery alone is estimated to involve over 1 trillion US dollars annually. A state of unrestrained political corruption is known as a kleptocracy, literally meaning "rule by thieves".
qas: answers: text: country or jurisdiction
question: What is considered political corruption is differnt in each what?

answers: text: broad or ill-defined
question: Sometime sit is hard to tell if actions are legal or illegal because governement officials have what kind of power?

answers: text: 1 trillion US dollars
question: How much money is involved in bribery in the world each year?

answers: text: kleptocracy
question: unrestrsined political corruption is known as what?

answers: text: rule by thieves
question: What does kleptocracy mean?

answers: text: kleptocracy
question: A sate of unrestrained political corruption is known as what?

answers: text: bribery
question: Which crime costs over one trillion U.S. dollars every year, world-wide?

answers: text: rule by thieves
question: What does kleptocracy mean?

context: Some forms of corruption – now called "institutional corruption" – are distinguished from bribery and other kinds of obvious personal gain. A similar problem of corruption arises in any institution that depends on financial support from people who have interests that may conflict with the primary purpose of the institution.
qas: answers: text: institutional corruption
question: Another for of corruption is what?

answers: text: institutional corruption
question: A form of corruption that does not involve personal gain is known as what?

answers: text: personal gain
question: Bribery is an example of corruption that involves what type of gain?

answers: text: institutional corruption
question: What are some forms of corruption now  called?

answers: text: bribery
question: Institutional corruption is distinguished from what type of corruption?

answers: text: the primary purpose of the institution
question: This type of problem happens in any organization where the interests of the people who financially support it conflicts with what?

context: In politics, corruption undermines democracy and good governance by flouting or even subverting formal processes. Corruption in elections and in the legislature reduces accountability and distorts representation in policymaking; corruption in the judiciary compromises the rule of law; and corruption in public administration results in the inefficient provision of services. It violates a basic principle of republicanism regarding the centrality of civic virtue.
qas: answers: text: democracy
question: What does corruption undermine in politics?

answers: text: formal processes
question: What does corruption disregard in politics?

answers: text: accountability
question: Political corruption in legislature reduces what, overall?

answers: text: judiciary
question: Corruption in what compromises the rule of law?

answers: text: public administration
question: Corruption in what creates weak provision of services?

context: More generally, corruption erodes the institutional capacity of government if procedures are disregarded, resources are siphoned off, and public offices are bought and sold. Corruption undermines the legitimacy of government and such democratic values as trust and tolerance. Recent evidence suggests that variation in the levels of corruption amongst high-income democracies can vary significantly depending on the level of accountability of decision-makers. Evidence from fragile states also shows that corruption and bribery can adversely impact trust in institutions.
qas: answers: text: trust and tolerance
question: What two democratic values are soiled due to corruption?

answers: text: bought and sold
question: Corruption disintegrates government capacity when public offices are what?

answers: text: accountability
question: The level of corruption can vary in richer democracies in regards to the what of those officials making decisions?

context: In the private sector, corruption increases the cost of business through the price of illicit payments themselves, the management cost of negotiating with officials and the risk of breached agreements or detection. Although some claim corruption reduces costs by cutting bureaucracy, the availability of bribes can also induce officials to contrive new rules and delays. Openly removing costly and lengthy regulations are better than covertly allowing them to be bypassed by using bribes. Where corruption inflates the cost of business, it also distorts the playing field, shielding firms with connections from competition and thereby sustaining inefficient firms.
qas: answers: text: private
question: Corruption raises the cost of business because of illegal payments in what sector?

answers: text: bureaucracy
question: Some people feel that corruption actually reduces costs because it cuts what?

answers: text: Openly removing costly and lengthy regulations
question: What process is better than allowing bribes to remain in place?

answers: text: competition
question: Corruption changes the playing field by allowing businesses with connections to be shielded by what?

context: Corruption also generates economic distortion in the public sector by diverting public investment into capital projects where bribes and kickbacks are more plentiful. Officials may increase the technical complexity of public sector projects to conceal or pave the way for such dealings, thus further distorting investment. Corruption also lowers compliance with construction, environmental, or other regulations, reduces the quality of government services and infrastructure, and increases budgetary pressures on government.
qas: answers: text: public investment
question: Economic distortion is created by corruption in the public sector by diverting what into capital projects?

answers: text: bribes and kickbacks
question: What is more plentiful in capital projects?

answers: text: compliance
question: Corruption can lower what with environmental regulations?

context: Economists argue that one of the factors behind the differing economic development in Africa and Asia is that in Africa, corruption has primarily taken the form of rent extraction with the resulting financial capital moved overseas rather than invested at home (hence the stereotypical, but often accurate, image of African dictators having Swiss bank accounts). In Nigeria, for example, more than $400 billion was stolen from the treasury by Nigeria's leaders between 1960 and 1999.
qas: answers: text: Swiss
question: African dictators often have what kind of bank accounts?

answers: text: rent extraction
question: What form has corruption taken in Africa?

answers: text: overseas
question: In Africa, the finances are often moved where?

context: University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers estimated that from 1970 to 1996, capital flight from 30 Sub-Saharan countries totaled $187bn, exceeding those nations' external debts. (The results, expressed in retarded or suppressed development, have been modeled in theory by economist Mancur Olson.) In the case of Africa, one of the factors for this behavior was political instability, and the fact that new governments often confiscated previous government's corruptly obtained assets. This encouraged officials to stash their wealth abroad, out of reach of any future expropriation. In contrast, Asian administrations such as Suharto's New Order often took a cut on business transactions or provided conditions for development, through infrastructure investment, law and order, etc.
qas: answers: text: University of Massachusetts Amherst
question: Which researchers studied corruption from Sub-Saharan countries from 1970 to 1996?

answers: text: external debts
question: The 187 billion exceeded what in these countries?

answers: text: political instability
question: What was one of the factors for this behavior in Africa?

context: Corruption is often most evident in countries with the smallest per capita incomes, relying on foreign aid for health services. Local political interception of donated money from overseas is especially prevalent in Sub-Saharan African nations, where it was reported in the 2006 World Bank Report that about half of the funds that were donated for health usages were never invested into the health sectors or given to those needing medical attention.
qas: answers: text: countries with the smallest per capita incomes
question: Where is corruption most noticeable?

answers: text: health services
question: These countries rely on foreign aid for what?

answers: text: Local
question: In Sub-Saharan African countries, what level of government is corruption especially prevalent at?

answers: text: the 2006 World Bank Report
question: Which report described this corruption? 

answers: text: about half
question: How many funds did not reach their intended recipients who needed medical attention?

context: Instead, the donated money was expended through "counterfeit drugs, siphoning off of drugs to the black market, and payments to ghost employees". Ultimately, there is a sufficient amount of money for health in developing countries, but local corruption denies the wider citizenry the resource they require.
qas: answers: text: ghost employees
question: What kind of employees received payments?

answers: text: the black market
question: Where were drugs siphoned off to?

answers: text: counterfeit drugs
question: In addition to ghost employees and the black market receiving drugs, what other way was money expended?

answers: text: money
question: If local corruption did not exist, there would be enough what to help the people in these countries needing medical help?

context: Corruption facilitates environmental destruction. While corrupt societies may have formal legislation to protect the environment, it cannot be enforced if officials can easily be bribed. The same applies to social rights worker protection, unionization prevention, and child labor. Violation of these laws rights enables corrupt countries to gain illegitimate economic advantage in the international market.
qas: answers: text: environmental destruction
question: Corruption aids what as far as the environment is concerned?

answers: text: bribed
question: Formal legislation cannot be regulated when officials are what?

answers: text: social rights worker protection
question: Bribes also halt unions, the protection of children in labor, and what?

answers: text: illegitimate economic advantage
question: When these laws are broken, corrupt countries gain what in the international market?

context: The Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has observed that "there is no such thing as an apolitical food problem." While drought and other naturally occurring events may trigger famine conditions, it is government action or inaction that determines its severity, and often even whether or not a famine will occur.
qas: answers: text: Amartya Sen
question: Who has stated that apolitical food problems do not exist?

answers: text: drought
question: What can trigger famine conditions?

answers: text: government action or inaction
question: While natural occurrences can cause famine, what determines the severity of it?

context: Governments with strong tendencies towards kleptocracy can undermine food security even when harvests are good. Officials often steal state property. In Bihar, India, more than 80% of the subsidized food aid to poor is stolen by corrupt officials. Similarly, food aid is often robbed at gunpoint by governments, criminals, and warlords alike, and sold for a profit. The 20th century is full of many examples of governments undermining the food security of their own nations – sometimes intentionally.
qas: answers: text: kleptocracy
question: Even if a harvest is good, food security can be crippled when a government has tendencies toward what?

context: The scale of humanitarian aid to the poor and unstable regions of the world grows, but it is highly vulnerable to corruption, with food aid, construction and other highly valued assistance as the most at risk. Food aid can be directly and physically diverted from its intended destination, or indirectly through the manipulation of assessments, targeting, registration and distributions to favor certain groups or individuals.
qas: answers: text: construction
question: Along with food aid, what is most at risk in these countries?

answers: text: physically diverted
question: How is food aid usually directly redirected from the people it should go to?

answers: text: assessments
question: Food aid can also be indirectly diverted from its intended recipients through the manipulation of what?

context: In construction and shelter there are numerous opportunities for diversion and profit through substandard workmanship, kickbacks for contracts and favouritism in the provision of valuable shelter material. Thus while humanitarian aid agencies are usually most concerned about aid being diverted by including too many, recipients themselves are most concerned about exclusion. Access to aid may be limited to those with connections, to those who pay bribes or are forced to give sexual favors. Equally, those able to do so may manipulate statistics to inflate the number of beneficiaries and siphon off additional assistance.
qas: answers: text: workmanship
question: Substandard what is often one way for corruption to enter the construction field?

answers: text: kickbacks
question: What happens with contracts to aid corruption?

answers: text: exclusion
question: Recipients of aid are concerned about what?

answers: text: forced to give sexual favors
question: Those receiving aid may have connections, pay bribes or what?

answers: text: statistics
question: Corrupt people may manipulate what to receive more assistance?

context: Corruption is not specific to poor, developing, or transition countries. In western countries, cases of bribery and other forms of corruption in all possible fields exist: under-the-table payments made to reputed surgeons by patients attempting to be on top of the list of forthcoming surgeries, bribes paid by suppliers to the automotive industry in order to sell low-quality connectors used for instance in safety equipment such as airbags, bribes paid by suppliers to manufacturers of defibrillators (to sell low-quality capacitors), contributions paid by wealthy parents to the "social and culture fund" of a prestigious university in exchange for it to accept their children, bribes paid to obtain diplomas, financial and other advantages granted to unionists by members of the executive board of a car manufacturer in exchange for employer-friendly positions and votes, etc. Examples are endless. These various manifestations of corruption can ultimately present a danger for the public health; they can discredit specific, essential institutions or social relationships.
qas: answers: text: the public health
question: These types of corruption can harm what?

answers: text: social relationships
question: Along with institutions, this type of corruption can discredit what?

context: Corruption can also affect the various components of sports activities (referees, players, medical and laboratory staff involved in anti-doping controls, members of national sport federation and international committees deciding about the allocation of contracts and competition places).
qas: answers: text: sports
question: Corruption can determine certain things in what kind of activities?

answers: text: anti-doping controls
question: Medical staff can affect what aspect of sports?

context: Ultimately, the distinction between public and private sector corruption sometimes appears rather artificial, and national anti-corruption initiatives may need to avoid legal and other loopholes in the coverage of the instruments.
qas: answers: text: artificial
question: The difference between corruption that is public or private looks like what?

answers: text: national anti-corruption initiatives
question: What needs to stay away from loopholes?

context: In the context of political corruption, a bribe may involve a payment given to a government official in exchange of his use of official powers. Bribery requires two participants: one to give the bribe, and one to take it. Either may initiate the corrupt offering; for example, a customs official may demand bribes to let through allowed (or disallowed) goods, or a smuggler might offer bribes to gain passage. In some countries the culture of corruption extends to every aspect of public life, making it extremely difficult for individuals to operate without resorting to bribes. Bribes may be demanded in order for an official to do something he is already paid to do. They may also be demanded in order to bypass laws and regulations. In addition to their role in private financial gain, bribes are also used to intentionally and maliciously cause harm to another (i.e. no financial incentive).[citation needed] In some developing nations, up to half of the population has paid bribes during the past 12 months.
qas: answers: text: a bribe
question: What do you call paying government officials to use their position in their office?

answers: text: two
question: What is the minimum amount of people that can be involved in a bribe?

answers: text: culture of corruption
question: What is it called when corruption is part of all public life?

answers: text: harm
question: Beyond getting money, bribes are also used to cause what to others?

context: In recent years,[when?] the international community has made efforts to encourage countries to dissociate active and passive bribery and to incriminate them as separate offences.[citation needed]
qas: answers: text: active and passive bribery
question: What two types of bribery is the international community trying to get prosecuted as separate?

context: This dissociation aims to make the early steps (offering, promising, requesting an advantage) of a corrupt deal already an offence and, thus, to give a clear signal (from a criminal-policy point-of-view) that bribery is not acceptable.[citation needed] Furthermore, such a dissociation makes the prosecution of bribery offences easier since it can be very difficult to prove that two parties (the bribe-giver and the bribe-taker) have formally agreed upon a corrupt deal. In addition, there is often no such formal deal but only a mutual understanding, for instance when it is common knowledge in a municipality that to obtain a building permit one has to pay a "fee" to the decision maker to obtain a favorable decision. A working definition of corruption is also provided as follows in article 3 of the Civil Law Convention on Corruption (ETS 174): For the purpose of this Convention, "corruption" means requesting, offering, giving or accepting, directly or indirectly, a bribe or any other undue advantage or prospect thereof, which distorts the proper performance of any duty or behavior required of the recipient of the bribe, the undue advantage or the prospect thereof.
qas: answers: text: mutual understanding
question: In some countries there is no formal deal but what that makes prosecuting bribes difficult?

answers: text: accepting
question: A bribe can include requesting, offering, giving or what of favors or money?

answers: text: indirect
question: Bribes can be direct or what?

context: Trading in influence, or influence peddling, refers a person selling his/her influence over the decision making process to benefit a third party (person or institution). The difference with bribery is that this is a tri-lateral relation. From a legal point of view, the role of the third party (who is the target of the influence) does not really matter although he/she can be an accessory in some instances. It can be difficult to make a distinction between this form of corruption and some forms of extreme and loosely regulated lobbying where for instance law- or decision-makers can freely "sell" their vote, decision power or influence to those lobbyists who offer the highest compensation, including where for instance the latter act on behalf of powerful clients such as industrial groups who want to avoid the passing of specific environmental, social, or other regulations perceived as too stringent, etc. Where lobbying is (sufficiently) regulated, it becomes possible to provide for a distinctive criteria and to consider that trading in influence involves the use of "improper influence", as in article 12 of the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption (ETS 173) of the Council of Europe.
qas: answers: text: influence peddling
question: Selling or trading government position influence is called what?

answers: text: tri-lateral
question: Selling influence can involve third-parties and this is called what type of relation?

answers: text: an accessory
question: In some situations the third-party in an influence peddling crime may be not involved or may be what?

answers: text: distinctive criteria
question: Where lobbying is controlled, what does it provide for consideration to determine improper influencing?

answers: text: article 12
question: What article of the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption contains distinctive criteria to determine improper influence?

context: Patronage refers to favoring supporters, for example with government employment. This may be legitimate, as when a newly elected government changes the top officials in the administration in order to effectively implement its policy. It can be seen as corruption if this means that incompetent persons, as a payment for supporting the regime, are selected before more able ones. In nondemocracies many government officials are often selected for loyalty rather than ability. They may be almost exclusively selected from a particular group (for example, Sunni Arabs in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the nomenklatura in the Soviet Union, or the Junkers in Imperial Germany) that support the regime in return for such favors. A similar problem can also be seen in Eastern Europe, for example in Romania, where the government is often accused of patronage (when a new government comes to power it rapidly changes most of the officials in the public sector).
qas: answers: text: Patronage
question: Giving government jobs to supporters is called what?

answers: text: Romania
question: What country quickly changes most people working in government position when a new government comes into power?

context: Favoring relatives (nepotism) or personal friends (cronyism) of an official is a form of illegitimate private gain. This may be combined with bribery, for example demanding that a business should employ a relative of an official controlling regulations affecting the business. The most extreme example is when the entire state is inherited, as in North Korea or Syria. A lesser form might be in the Southern United States with Good ol' boys, where women and minorities are excluded. A milder form of cronyism is an "old boy network", in which appointees to official positions are selected only from a closed and exclusive social network – such as the alumni of particular universities – instead of appointing the most competent candidate.
qas: answers: text: nepotism
question: What is it called when relatives are favored over other people?

answers: text: cronyism
question: What is it called when friends are favored over other people?

answers: text: old boy network
question: Cronyism is also when people are selected from a closed and exclusive social network, which is called what?

context: Seeking to harm enemies becomes corruption when official powers are illegitimately used as means to this end. For example, trumped-up charges are often brought up against journalists or writers who bring up politically sensitive issues, such as a politician's acceptance of bribes.
qas: answers: text: enemies
question: Corruption also occurs when an official wants to cause some form of harm to who?

answers: text: politically sensitive issues
question: False charges can be brought against a journalist who writes about what?

context: Gombeenism refers to an individual who is dishonest and corrupt for the purpose of personal gain, more often through monetary, while, parochialism which is also known as parish pump politics relates to placing local or vanity projects ahead of the national interest.For instance in Irish politics, populist left wing political parties will often apply these terms to mainstream establisment political parties and will cite the many cases of Corruption in Ireland, such as the Irish Banking crisis, which found evidence of bribery, cronyism and collusion, where in some cases politicians who were coming to the end of their political careers would receive a senior management or committee position in a company they had dealings with.
qas: answers: text: Gombeenism
question: What is it called when a person is dishonest or corrupt for his own gain?

answers: text: parochialism
question: Parish pump politics is also called what?

answers: text: Irish Banking crisis
question: Which crisis in Ireland involved bribery, cronyism and collusion?

answers: text: senior management or committee position
question: Politicians who were at the end of their political careers were offered what kind of position with companies they were involved with politically?

context: Electoral fraud is illegal interference with the process of an election. Acts of fraud affect vote counts to bring about an election result, whether by increasing the vote share of the favored candidate, depressing the vote share of the rival candidates, or both. Also called voter fraud, the mechanisms involved include illegal voter registration, intimidation at polls, and improper vote counting.
qas: answers: text: Electoral fraud
question: Illegal interference with an election is called what?

answers: text: voter fraud
question: Another term for electoral fraud is what?

answers: text: intimidation
question: Illegal voter registration, the miscounting of votes, and what at polls is considered voter fraud?

context: Embezzlement is the theft of entrusted funds. It is political when it involves public money taken by a public official for use by anyone not specified by the public. A common type of embezzlement is that of personal use of entrusted government resources; for example, when an official assigns public employees to renovate his own house.
qas: answers: text: Embezzlement
question: When entrusted funds are stolen, it is called what?

answers: text: public
question: It is considered political when it involves what kind of money?

answers: text: personal
question: One form of political embezzlement is when a politician uses government resources for what use?

context: A kickback is an official's share of misappropriated funds allocated from his or her organization to an organization involved in corrupt bidding. For example, suppose that a politician is in charge of choosing how to spend some public funds. He can give a contract to a company that is not the best bidder, or allocate more than they deserve. In this case, the company benefits, and in exchange for betraying the public, the official receives a kickback payment, which is a portion of the sum the company received. This sum itself may be all or a portion of the difference between the actual (inflated) payment to the company and the (lower) market-based price that would have been paid had the bidding been competitive.
qas: answers: text: kickback
question: What is the public official's share called when involved in corrupt bidding?

answers: text: bidder
question: A contract can be given to someone who is not the best what?

context: Kickbacks are not limited to government officials; any situation in which people are entrusted to spend funds that do not belong to them are susceptible to this kind of corruption.
qas: answers: text: Kickbacks
question: What is not limited to just government officials?

context: An unholy alliance is a coalition among seemingly antagonistic groups for ad hoc or hidden gain, generally some influential non-governmental group forming ties with political parties, supplying funding in exchange for the favorable treatment. Like patronage, unholy alliances are not necessarily illegal, but unlike patronage, by its deceptive nature and often great financial resources, an unholy alliance can be much more dangerous to the public interest. An early use of the term was by former US President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt:
qas: answers: text: unholy alliance
question: When groups that are antagonistic to each other form a coalition for hidden gain, it is called what?

answers: text: patronage
question: While not illegal, an unholy alliance can be more dangerous to the public than what?

context: An illustrative example of official involvement in organized crime can be found from 1920s and 1930s Shanghai, where Huang Jinrong was a police chief in the French concession, while simultaneously being a gang boss and co-operating with Du Yuesheng, the local gang ringleader. The relationship kept the flow of profits from the gang's gambling dens, prostitution, and protection rackets undisturbed.[citation needed]
qas: answers: text: 1920s and 1930s
question: When was Jinrong a police chief in this area?

answers: text: Du Yuesheng
question: Who was a local gang ringleader in the same area?

answers: text: a gang boss
question: In addition to being a police chief, Jinrong was also what?

context: The United States accused Manuel Noriega's government in Panama of being a "narcokleptocracy", a corrupt government profiting on illegal drug trade. Later the U.S. invaded Panama and captured Noriega.
qas: answers: text: narcokleptocracy
question: What was Noriega's government accused of being?

answers: text: Panama
question: What country did Noriega rule?

answers: text: United States
question: What country invaded Panama to capture Noriega?

answers: text: government profiting on illegal drug trade
question: What is a narcokleptocracy?

answers: text: Manuel
question: What is Noriega's first name?

context: Thomas Jefferson observed a tendency for "The functionaries of every government ... to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit [for liberty and property] ... without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe."
qas: answers: text: safe
question: According to Thomas Jefferson, when the media is free and people are literate they are what?

context: Recent research supports Jefferson's claim. Brunetti and Weder found "evidence of a significant relationship between more press freedom and less corruption in a large cross-section of countries." They also presented "evidence which suggests that the direction of causation runs from higher press freedom to lower corruption." Adserà, Boix, and Payne found that increases in newspaper readership led to increased political accountability and lower corruption in data from roughly 100 countries and from different states in the US.
qas: answers: text: Brunetti and Weder
question: Who found evidence that where the media had freedom there was less political corruption?

answers: text: Adserà, Boix, and Payne
question: Who discovered that more people reading newspapers resulted in higher political accountability?

answers: text: different states in the US.
question: About 100 countries and what else was information gathered from to show that more people reading newspapers had higher political accountability?

context: Snyder and Strömberg found "that a poor fit between newspaper markets and political districts reduces press coverage of politics. ... Congressmen who are less covered by the local press work less for their constituencies: they are less likely to stand witness before congressional hearings ... . Federal spending is lower in areas where there is less press coverage of the local members of congress." Schulhofer-Wohl and Garrido found that the year after the Cincinnati Post closed in 2007, "fewer candidates ran for municipal office in the Kentucky suburbs most reliant on the Post, incumbents became more likely to win reelection, and voter turnout and campaign spending fell.
qas: answers: text: Snyder and Strömberg
question: Who discovered the correlation that congressman who have less local press coverage work less for the people who elected them?

answers: text: Cincinnati Post
question: What newspaper stopped publishing in 2007?

answers: text: incumbents
question: Who was most likely to get reelected after the Post shut down?

answers: text: voter turnout
question: Campaign spending and what fell after the Post stopped publishing?

context: An analysis of the evolution of mass media in the US and Europe since World War II noted mixed results from the growth of the Internet: "The digital revolution has been good for freedom of expression [and] information [but] has had mixed effects on freedom of the press": It has disrupted traditional sources of funding, and new forms of Internet journalism have replaced only a tiny fraction of what's been lost.
qas: answers: text: growth of the Internet
question: What did the analysis show mixed results for?

answers: text: traditional sources of funding
question: What was disrupted by Internet growth for the press?

answers: text: a tiny fraction
question: How much has new types of Internet journalism replaced what has been lost in the press?

context: Transparency International, an anti-corruption NGO, pioneered this field with the CPI, first released in 1995. This work is often credited with breaking a taboo and forcing the issue of corruption into high level development policy discourse. Transparency International currently publishes three measures, updated annually: a CPI (based on aggregating third-party polling of public perceptions of how corrupt different countries are); a Global Corruption Barometer (based on a survey of general public attitudes toward and experience of corruption); and a Bribe Payers Index, looking at the willingness of foreign firms to pay bribes. The Corruption Perceptions Index is the best known of these metrics, though it has drawn much criticism and may be declining in influence. In 2013 Transparency International published a report on the "Government Defence Anti-corruption Index". This index evaluates the risk of corruption in countries' military sector.
qas: answers: text: three
question: How many measures does Transparency International publish right now?

answers: text: Bribe Payers Index
question: What is the measure that Transparency International publishes that looks at the willingness of a foreign company to pay a bribe?

answers: text: CPI
question: What is the measure that it publishes that involves polling to determine the public's take on how corrupt various countries are?

answers: text: 1995
question: When was the CPI first released?

answers: text: Government Defence Anti-corruption Index
question: Which index studies the correlation of corruption and military in a country?

context: The World Bank collects a range of data on corruption, including survey responses from over 100,000 firms worldwide and a set of indicators of governance and institutional quality. Moreover, one of the six dimensions of governance measured by the Worldwide Governance Indicators is Control of Corruption, which is defined as "the extent to which power is exercised for private gain, including both petty and grand forms of corruption, as well as 'capture' of the state by elites and private interests." While the definition itself is fairly precise, the data aggregated into the Worldwide Governance Indicators is based on any available polling: questions range from "is corruption a serious problem?" to measures of public access to information, and not consistent across countries. Despite these weaknesses, the global coverage of these datasets has led to their widespread adoption, most notably by the Millennium Challenge Corporation.
qas: answers: text: over 100,000
question: How many firms throughout the world have been surveyed by the World Bank in regards to its corruption study?

answers: text: six
question: How many dimensions of governance are measured by the Worldwide Governance Indicators?

answers: text: Control of Corruption
question: One of the dimensions is the extent to which power is exercised for personal gain, which is called what?

answers: text: Millennium Challenge Corporation
question: Which organization is most notable for adopting the global coverage of these studies?

context: A number of parties have collected survey data, from the public and from experts, to try and gauge the level of corruption and bribery, as well as its impact on political and economic outcomes. A second wave of corruption metrics has been created by Global Integrity, the International Budget Partnership, and many lesser known local groups. These metrics include the Global Integrity Index, first published in 2004. These second wave projects aim to create policy change by identifying resources more effectively and creating checklists toward incremental reform. Global Integrity and the International Budget Partnership each dispense with public surveys and instead uses in-country experts to evaluate "the opposite of corruption" – which Global Integrity defines as the public policies that prevent, discourage, or expose corruption. These approaches compliment the first wave, awareness-raising tools by giving governments facing public outcry a checklist which measures concrete steps toward improved governance.
qas: answers: text: International Budget Partnership
question: A second set of corruption metrics has been compiled by Global Integrity and what other organization?

answers: text: 2004
question: When was the Global Integrity Index first published?

answers: text: public surveys
question: Both companies no longer use what means of collecting of data?

answers: text: in-country experts
question: Instead of public surveys, the organizations use what to study corruption?

context: Typical second wave corruption metrics do not offer the worldwide coverage found in first wave projects, and instead focus on localizing information gathered to specific problems and creating deep, "unpackable"[clarification needed] content that matches quantitative and qualitative data.
qas: answers: text: local
question: The second wave of metrics focuses on what level of corruption?

answers: text: worldwide
question: Unlike the first wave, the second wave does not offer what type of coverage?

context: Alternative approaches, such as the British aid agency's Drivers of Change research, skips numbers and promotes understanding corruption via political economy analysis of who controls power in a given society.
qas: answers: text: Drivers of Change
question: What is the British aid agency's research called?

answers: text: numbers
question: What does Drivers of Change skip?

answers: text: understanding corruption
question: What does Drivers of Change promote?

context: Extensive and diverse public spending is, in itself, inherently at risk of cronyism, kickbacks, and embezzlement. Complicated regulations and arbitrary, unsupervised official conduct exacerbate the problem. This is one argument for privatization and deregulation. Opponents of privatization see the argument as ideological. The argument that corruption necessarily follows from the opportunity is weakened by the existence of countries with low to non-existent corruption but large public sectors, like the Nordic countries. These countries score high on the Ease of Doing Business Index, due to good and often simple regulations, and have rule of law firmly established. Therefore, due to their lack of corruption in the first place, they can run large public sectors without inducing political corruption. Recent evidence that takes both the size of expenditures and regulatory complexity into account has found that high-income democracies with more expansive state sectors do indeed have higher levels of corruption.
qas: answers: text: cronyism
question: Public spending has risks of kickbacks, embezzlement and what?

answers: text: Complicated
question: What type of regulations make corruption worse for public spending?

answers: text: privatization and deregulation
question: The potential for corruption in public spending are one of the arguments that favor what?

answers: text: Nordic
question: What countries have big public sectors but low corruption?

answers: text: rule of law
question: What do the low corruption countries have solidly established?

context: Like other governmental economic activities, also privatization, such as in the sale of government-owned property, is particularly at the risk of cronyism. Privatizations in Russia, Latin America, and East Germany were accompanied by large-scale corruption during the sale of the state owned companies. Those with political connections unfairly gained large wealth, which has discredited privatization in these regions. While media have reported widely the grand corruption that accompanied the sales, studies have argued that in addition to increased operating efficiency, daily petty corruption is, or would be, larger without privatization, and that corruption is more prevalent in non-privatized sectors. Furthermore, there is evidence to suggest that extralegal and unofficial activities are more prevalent in countries that privatized less.
qas: answers: text: cronyism
question: Selling government property is highly at risk for what?

answers: text: Those with political connections
question: What type of people got wealthy from the sale of state-owned companies?

answers: text: non-privatized sectors
question: Where is corruption even more prevalent?

answers: text: privatized less
question: Countries that what have more extralegal and unofficial things going on?

context: In the European Union, the principle of subsidiarity is applied: a government service should be provided by the lowest, most local authority that can competently provide it. An effect is that distribution of funds into multiple instances discourages embezzlement, because even small sums missing will be noticed. In contrast, in a centralized authority, even minute proportions of public funds can be large sums of money.
qas: answers: text: principle of subsidiarity
question: Providing a government service from the lowest form of local government that can adequately provide the service is called what?

answers: text: embezzlement
question: What does distributing money into multiple instances discourage?

answers: text: centralized
question: Even small amounts of public money can be a lot in what type of authority?

context: If the highest echelons of the governments also take advantage from corruption or embezzlement from the state's treasury, it is sometimes referred with the neologism kleptocracy. Members of the government can take advantage of the natural resources (e.g., diamonds and oil in a few prominent cases) or state-owned productive industries. A number of corrupt governments have enriched themselves via foreign aid, which is often spent on showy buildings and armaments.
qas: answers: text: kleptocracy
question: What is it called when higher ups in government embezzle from the government's treasury?

answers: text: diamonds and oil
question: What examples of natural resources do some corrupt officials in government take?

answers: text: foreign aid
question: Some corrupt governments use what type of money coming in?

answers: text: armaments
question: Foreign aid money is sometimes used to build fancy structures and to buy what?

context: A corrupt dictatorship typically results in many years of general hardship and suffering for the vast majority of citizens as civil society and the rule of law disintegrate. In addition, corrupt dictators routinely ignore economic and social problems in their quest to amass ever more wealth and power.
qas: answers: text: economic and social problems
question: In their pursuit of more money and power, corrupt dictators often ignore what?

context: The classic case of a corrupt, exploitive dictator often given is the regime of Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled the Democratic Republic of the Congo (which he renamed Zaire) from 1965 to 1997. It is said that usage of the term kleptocracy gained popularity largely in response to a need to accurately describe Mobutu's regime. Another classic case is Nigeria, especially under the rule of General Sani Abacha who was de facto president of Nigeria from 1993 until his death in 1998. He is reputed to have stolen some US$3–4 billion. He and his relatives are often mentioned in Nigerian 419 letter scams claiming to offer vast fortunes for "help" in laundering his stolen "fortunes", which in reality turn out not to exist. More than $400 billion was stolen from the treasury by Nigeria's leaders between 1960 and 1999.
qas: answers: text: Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko
question: Who was the dictator in Zaire from 1965 to 1997?

answers: text: Democratic Republic of the Congo
question: What did Zaire used to be known as?

answers: text: kleptocracy
question: What term became more popular as Mobutu ruled?

answers: text: General Sani Abacha
question: Who ruled Nigeria until he died in 1998?

context: More recently, articles in various financial periodicals, most notably Forbes magazine, have pointed to Fidel Castro, General Secretary of the Republic of Cuba since 1959, of likely being the beneficiary of up to $900 million, based on "his control" of state-owned companies. Opponents of his regime claim that he has used money amassed through weapons sales, narcotics, international loans, and confiscation of private property to enrich himself and his political cronies who hold his dictatorship together, and that the $900 million published by Forbes is merely a portion of his assets, although that needs to be proven.
qas: answers: text: Forbes
question: What magazine had articles about Castro benefiting from corruption?

answers: text: a portion
question: The $900 million Forbes said Castro took may only be what of his total assets?

answers: text: General Secretary of the Republic of Cuba
question: What is Fidel Castro's official title?

context: Further conventions were adopted at the regional level under the aegis of the Organization of American States (OAS or OEA), the African Union, and in 2003, at the universal level under that of the United Nations Convention against Corruption.
qas: answers: text: Organization of American States
question: What is OAS?

answers: text: the African Union
question: Additional conventions were adopted at the regional level by OAS and who?

answers: text: the United Nations Convention against Corruption
question: What organization joined at the universal level?

answers: text: 2003
question: When did the United Nations Convention against Corruption join?

context: Measuring corruption statistically is difficult if not impossible due to the illicit nature of the transaction and imprecise definitions of corruption. While "corruption" indices first appeared in 1995 with the Corruption Perceptions Index CPI, all of these metrics address different proxies for corruption, such as public perceptions of the extent of the problem.
qas: answers: text: imprecise definitions of corruption
question: Why is it difficult to measure corruption?

answers: text: 1995
question: When did indices on corruption first appear?

answers: text: the Corruption Perceptions Index CPI
question: What was the first index on corruption, in 1995?

context: There are two methods of corruption of the judiciary: the state (through budget planning and various privileges), and the private. Budget of the judiciary in many transitional and developing countries is almost completely controlled by the executive. The latter undermines the separation of powers, as it creates a critical financial dependence of the judiciary. The proper national wealth distribution including the government spending on the judiciary is subject of the constitutional economics. Judicial corruption can be difficult to completely eradicate, even in developed countries.
qas: answers: text: two
question: How many methods of judiciary corruption are there?

answers: text: executive
question: What part of the government controls the judiciary budget in many developing countries?

answers: text: separation of powers
question: What does executive branch control over judiciary money undermine?

answers: text: judiciary
question: What type of corruption is hard to get rid of even in developed countries?

context: Mobile telecommunications and radio broadcasting help to fight corruption, especially in developing regions like Africa, where other forms of communications are limited. In India, the anti-corruption bureau fights against corruption, and a new ombudsman bill called Jan Lokpal Bill is being prepared.
qas: answers: text: Mobile telecommunications
question: Radio broadcasts and what help deter corruption?

answers: text: Africa
question: What country is used as an example for limited forms of communications?

answers: text: the anti-corruption bureau
question: Who works against corruption in India?

answers: text: Jan Lokpal Bill
question: What new ombudsman bill is being readied in India?

context: In the 1990s, initiatives were taken at an international level (in particular by the European Community, the Council of Europe, the OECD) to put a ban on corruption: in 1996, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, for instance, adopted a comprehensive Programme of Action against Corruption and, subsequently, issued a series of anti-corruption standard-setting instruments:
qas: answers: text: 1990s
question: What decade saw international initiatives to combat corruption?

answers: text: Ministers of the Council of Europe
question: Who started the Programme of Action?

answers: text: a series of anti-corruption standard-setting instruments
question: What did the Programme of Action issue?

context: The purpose of these instruments was to address the various forms of corruption (involving the public sector, the private sector, the financing of political activities, etc.) whether they had a strictly domestic or also a transnational dimension. To monitor the implementation at national level of the requirements and principles provided in those texts, a monitoring mechanism – the Group of States Against Corruption (also known as GRECO) (French: Groupe d'Etats contre la corruption) was created.
qas: answers: text: Group of States Against Corruption
question: What does GRECO stand for?

answers: text: Groupe d'Etats contre la corruption
question: What is the name of the French equivalent of GRECO?

answers: text: transnational
question: The instruments used to point out the different corrupt forms looked to see if they were rigidly domestic or what?