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Freedom and Democracy: Summarising Corruption Cases in Europe and Asia

Freedom and Democracy: Summarising Corruption Cases in Europe and Asia  escrito por Dini Harmita/Dini Bértoa  Abstract   Corruption, Collusion, Cartelisation-clientelism, and Nepotism (C4N) seem inevitable to discuss this lately. Following the cases of corruption in Indonesia, Spain, Georgia, and Russia this research note is aimed at understanding the phenomenons by summarising them. Both Indonesia and Russia are characterised with systemic corruption while Spain seems to be stuck because of the perennial fights between PSOE and PP; and Georgia wants to avenge the C4N cases at least through their V for Vendetta protest. In the process of summarising other cases from both Europe and Asia will complete the comparison as part of the collective cases.  Keywords : Europe, Asia, Indonesia, Spain, Georgia, Russia, Corruption, Collusion, Cartelisation-clientelism, Nepotism When we face difficult times we tend to be offered both bad and nice options by the universe. In politi...