Opportunity marries with circumstance and is midwife to the resultant bartering of public office. The mutuality is advantage to the parties involved merely facilitates the spread of such practices. When it reaches the point of being commonplace and is pragmatically perceived as the most practical means of getting things done, it has become systemic and difficult to eradicate.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Public office bartering becomes systemic when opportunity and circumstance combine to make it seem like the practical way to get things done.
- In plain terms
- Bribing for office happens when it becomes the normal way to get things done.
- What can you take from it?
- Stop normalizing bartering for public office.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How does corruption become normal?
- What stops systemic corruption?
Another view
Systemic corruption is hard to fix without broad institutional change.
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