FIRST APPROACH TO THE CONCEPTS 'CORRUPTION' AND 'SYSTEM'
When corruption is at the center in the heart of the political system, could hardly fail to radiate into it in all directions. PERFECT
Andrés Ibáñez
According to the dictionary of the Real Academia de la Lengua, one of the most famous and authorized the English language, the word corruption means "Action and effect of corrupting or corrupted" speech which in turn is defined as alteration or reversal of the way of something, spoil, deprave, damage or rot, bribe or bribe the judge, or anyone, with gifts or otherwise.
Corruption is not a legal concept, but social, human, embedded like a cancer on the phenomenon of power, but sometimes remains, fortunately, inactive, is changing in form and substance, which leads to perversion and, ultimately, death. Ethics Policy
Since the corruption is identified as harmful or in violation of the common good of the public interest. Also gives the word "corruption" to mean "something ruined, defective, degradao (sic) flawed. It means something that" has been diverted to an inferior or worse "."
The same dictionary defines the word regime as "how to govern and govern in a thing, constitutions, regulations or practices of a government in general or one of its dependencies." To put it another way, the political system as a general form of organization of society, gender and political regime is a particular or specific form of exercising political power within a given political system.
Without lacking reason, Alvaro Gomez Hurtado said he had to change or overthrow the existing regime in Colombia, was more consistent in defending the political system as such, under construction after the issuance of the Constitution of 1991 in the form of a social state of law, democratic and participatory (Preamble and Articles . 1 º and 2 º).
Consequently, expressions relating the corruption and regime will result in the same dialectical, meaning that should conglobate the existence of an ulcerated government, general government practices and harmful damage, the current existence of activities that degraded and flawed govern a society.
From this perspective, corruption is defined as those behaviors that deviate from the natural functions of public servants to serve private interests, pecuniary gain or social status, or violating the law in order to oppose the exercise of certain types of private influence. Against corruption and corrupt men will corrupt a society rife with corruption is therefore full of vulnerable, weak, potentially corruptible.
In summary, the interrelationship of the words corruption and regime denote the existence of a decadent society, confused and with little prospect in the future, people observe the problems of society, so far, are rooted individualistic criteria and unsupportive, and thus the system becomes fragile and unconvincing policies and, in most cases, doomed to failure.
In these modern times, when dominated by a neo-capitalist conception of state intervention in the economy, in which this takes a certain autonomy from the private members of the system, officials who represent him-both in determining the economic model, judicial decisions and of course, in issuing laws, "it is inevitable the existence of pressure groups" of all kinds, legal and illegal-that seek to condition the public administration, judicial and legislative, making use of power relations, direct and indirect favors, of course money. All this kind of behavior can not be avoided only by using repressive mechanisms, it is necessary to take measures of various kinds, including the administrative preventive measures, which hinder the possibility of external interference to public decisions, to avoid injuring the principle of objectivity that should govern any type of government action.
Despite all the flaws that you can find, Colombia is constituted as social rule of law, we live in a democracy, not only because there are elections in free competition of political parties, but also, as said by the Revolutionary French XVIII Century, because we have a Constitution that enshrines a list of fundamental rights among which include political rights of participation.
Some critics of democracy argue that corruption is a phenomenon of this type of social organization. But this claim is controversial and not very accurate when it proves to be the exercise of democratic freedoms which enables the disclosure of corruption in the state and that therefore the acts of corruption are made known to the public, all as a result of freedom of expression. Dictatorial regimes are also cases of corruption, and certainly more frequently than in democracies, but what happens is that disclosure is limited and in most cases the judiciary, which should investigate and punish such acts, is not independent of the executive or is a available tax majority groups in power. "In dictatorships unreported corruption, except for those matters to the political power-is so far pursued it in court. The social powers become opaque, lacking the transparency that brings greater democracy and allows careful monitoring of civil society. It is therefore an intentional misrepresentation relate as cause and effect corruption of democracy. "
no doubt that at present one of the most despicable enemies of our democracy is corruption, derived from many sources that have affected all organs of State and now puts into question the highest levels of political power, discussing the legitimacy of our democracy, which is an attack and affect the fundamentals of fairness and equality on which it is based. add, parodying Ferrajoli that the possibility of halting the ongoing constitutional devolution in Colombia is especially true for the reaffirmation of sacral and pacticio of the Constitution in the social imaginary, and the defense of the only form of collective identity democratic type, which is what is called "patriotism of the Constitution." Develop this sense of democracy, which is to "take seriously" the Constitution is now, realistically, the only kind of democratic struggle in relation to the principles, which can reach to win.
That is why, in a democratic system is to continue preaching as such is necessary, imperative for the institutions and the state, combat corruption. This should be done at the root, without regard or deference to those who practice it or allow it to practice without fear of those who seek to spread links and missing links between democracy and fraud. It is therefore healthy the efforts of entities that want to make clear about the corruption in this country, no matter what class or type of "heads should roll." Have already "rolled" some, and things "about allegations that are made daily and summaries that start-seem to indicate that they should" fall "is more than you have" fallen. "
To get a full understanding of our criteria, it should explain what we mean by public service. We accept that the public is or are the various forms of manifestation of the state, or rather, the manifestation of the public from a teleological point of view, finalist. That is, the public function characterized, in whatever form, for its final content, as I said GUIDO ZANOBINI, "the State proceeds to achieve its aims through a series of activities that constitute its functions", which is projected in three dimensions or tripartite powers of government: administrative or executive, judicial and legislative. Corruption unbalances the public and placed in miserable position of Public Administration.
We know that every society has the leaders it deserves, or in other words, the regime prevailing in a society is the endorses, accepts, supports, tolerates or allows his people. And frankly I think we deserve something better, and, but, at least something different.
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