Soft Corruption: How Unethical Conduct Undermines Good Government and What To Do About It (Rivergate Regionals Collection)

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New Jersey has long been a breeding ground for political corruption, and most of it’s perfectly legal. Public officials accept favors from lobbyists, give paid positions to relatives, and rig the electoral process to favor their cronies in a system where campaign money is used to shop for government results. Such unethical behavior is referred to as “soft corruption,” and former New Jersey legislator William E. Schluter has been fighting it for the past fifty years.
 
On this searing personal narrative, the former state senator recounts his fight to expose and reform these acts of government misconduct. Not afraid to cite specific cases of soft corruption in New Jersey politics, he paints a vivid portrait of public servants who care more about political power and personal gain than the public good. By recounting events that he witnessed firsthand in the Garden State, he provides dramatic illustrations of ills that afflict American politics nationwide.
 
As he identifies five main forms of soft corruption, Schluter diagnoses the state government’s ethical malaise, and offers concrete policy suggestions for the way it could be cured. Not simply a dive through the muck of New Jersey politics, Soft Corruption is crucial first step to reforming our nation’s political system, a book which will inspire readers to demand that our elected officials can and will have to do better.

Consult with: www.softcorruption.com (http://www.softcorruption.com)
 

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