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Corruption in American politics and life

Chapter 24: INDEX
By Robert C. Brooks
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The author offers a systematic, dispassionate analysis of political corruption, first examining and rebutting common defenses such as claims that corruption promotes business efficiency, protects social order, or is an inevitable stage of progress. He proposes a clear ethical definition that distinguishes corruption from bribery and from mere inefficiency, analyzes motives, rewards, degrees of personal and partisan interest, and shows how corruption adapts across institutions. Historical and comparative examples illustrate persistent forms, changing modalities, and practical limits, while later chapters extend the inquiry to corrupting influences in professions, journalism, and higher education.

INDEX

  • Adams, Professor Henry C., 110, 177.
  • Addams, Jane, 215.
  • Ade, George, 146.
  • Advantage, personal, the end of a corrupt act, 59, 60.
  • Alger, G. W., 70.
  • Allen, William H., 185.
  • American Bar Association, 121.
  • Anarchy, 17, 21, 29, 66, 82.
  • Anthracite coal committees, 34.
  • Apologies for political corruption, 3, 37.
  • Aquinas, Thomas, 70.
  • Aristotle, 87.
  • Association to Prevent Corrupt Practices at Elections, New York, 272.
  • “Auto-corruption,” 46, 60, 170, 199.
  • Bacon, Lord, 90.
  • Belmont, Perry, 239, 271.
  • “Big Business,” 115, 163.
  • Blackmail, 63.
  • Bodley, J. E. C., 71.
  • Bonaparte, Napoleon, 83.
  • Boss, The (see also Machine), 23, 26, 71, 73, 105, 240, 278, 279.
  • Bribery, 44, 49, 59.
  • Brinkley, Captain F., 102.
  • Bryce, James, 216.
  • Bureau of Corporations, 175.
  • Bureau of Municipal Research, 184.
  • Burke, Edmund, 213.
  • Business, alleged to be made good by corruption, 4-13;
  • and social morals, 67, 68, 75;
  • and politics, corruption in, 161;
  • state regulation of, 165, 171;
  • and campaign contributions, 264;
  • consolidation of, 163.
  • “Business administration” of public affairs, 46.
  • Campaign contributions, danger of plutocracy involved in, 71-74;
  • problem of, 76;
  • and theory of party support, 213;
  • congressional appropriations, 221;
  • publicity, 229;
  • prohibition and restriction of, 244;
  • from corporations, 244;
  • from candidates, 248;
  • from civil servants, 256;
  • from individuals, 258;
  • and campaign literature, 260;
  • in small amounts, 261;
  • time limits, 262;
  • geographical limits, 263;
  • and business interests, 264;
  • of services, 267;
  • in state and local contests, 268;
  • in primaries and conventions, 270;
  • results of reform, 273.
  • Candidates, corruption and personal immorality as disqualifications, 15;
  • and publicity, 240;
  • contributions of, 248.
  • Caritative function of the state, 70.
  • Carnegie Foundation, 138, 149.
  • Census statistics of cities, 186.
  • Charles II., 89.
  • Chicago, slaughter-house exposures, 163.
  • Childs, Richard S., 297.
  • China, 102.
  • Church, the, 31, 36, 47, 66, 69.
  • Citizenship, education for, 36.
  • Civil service, Great Britain, 95-98;
  • in police departments, 190;
  • spoils system, 218;
  • and campaign contributions, 256.
  • Class war, 21, 29;
  • social interest vs. class interest, 293.
  • Cleveland, Grover, 107.
  • Colleges and universities, 48, 132, 139, 143.
  • Commissions, Public Service, 175.
  • Commons, Professor John R., 29.
  • Competition, 162.
  • Congressional appropriations for campaign expenses, 221.
  • Consensus of moral opinion on corruption, 58.
  • Contractual nature of corrupt practices, 106.
  • Corporation campaign contributions, 244.
  • Corporations, Bureau of, 175.
  • Corruption, defined, 41-48;
  • distinguished from inefficiency, 48-51;
  • a persistent problem, 81;
  • limited to certain branches or spheres of government, 100-104;
  • contractual nature of, 106;
  • minor forms of, 113;
  • classification of forms of, 116;
  • in professional life, 177;
  • in politics and business, 161, 169;
  • international, 170;
  • and the party organisation, 201;
  • decreasing in progressive countries, 299.
  • Crime and vice, 186.
  • Curtis, George William, 128.
  • Democracy, the corrupt machine as the saviour of, 17;
  • oligarchy vs., 26;
  • as means of establishing community of interest among the people, 30;
  • liability of, to corruption, 52, 54, 296.
  • “Democratic finance,” 182.
  • Democratic National Committee, Report 1908, 233;
  • time limit for contributions, 262.
  • Despotism, 51.
  • Dicey, Albert Venn, 175.
  • Dill, James B., 168.
  • Duty, political, 46, 51.
  • Eaton, Dorman B., 95-98, 205.
  • Economic evolution in relation to corruption, 52.
  • Economics, university instruction in, 139.
  • Education for citizenship, 36.
  • Efficiency, 14, 16.
  • England, 83, 95-98, 290, 295.
  • English Corrupt Practices Act, 248.
  • Europe, 30, 53, 74, 296.
  • Evolution, 22, 29, 33, 52.
  • Executive authorities, 56.
  • Family, the, 48, 66.
  • Finland, 83.
  • Fire departments, personnel of, 191.
  • Floquet, Charles, 71.
  • Folk, Joseph W., 64, 291.
  • Foote, Allen, Ripley, 197.
  • Ford, Professor Henry J., 17, 30, 57, 215, 219, 278.
  • Foreign vote in the United States, 31.
  • Franchises, Public Service, 11, 71, 73, 179.
  • Future, the social, 173.
  • Gambetta, Leon, 85.
  • “Gambling Commission,” New York, 106.
  • Gambling and vice, 6, 7, 8, 186.
  • Garfield Corrupt Practices Act, 249, 270.
  • George, Henry, 17.
  • Germany, 84, 85, 143, 290.
  • Ghent, W. J., 152.
  • Goodnow, Professor F. J., 9, 23, 25.
  • Graft, and other slang equivalents for corruption, 42.
  • Greece, 82.
  • Hadley, Arthur T., 266, 295.
  • Hapgood, Hutchins, 14.
  • Harvey, George, 131.
  • Hewitt, Abram S., 17.
  • Hobbes, Thomas, 82, 133.
  • Howard, C., 61.
  • Howe, Frederick C., 290, 295.
  • Immigrants, 31.
  • Inefficiency, 16, 48-51.
  • Intentional character of corruption, 48.
  • International corruption, 170.
  • Japan, 83, 102.
  • Journalism, 31, 121, 128, 279, 281, 284.
  • Judicial corruption, 56, 90, 92.
  • Justice, ideal of, 70.
  • Labour unions, 31;
  • leaders of, 14, 66.
  • Law, profession of, 121.
  • Legislation against corrupt practices (see also campaign contributions), 75, 76.
  • Legislative corruption, 45, 56.
  • Machine, political (see also Boss, Party Organisation), 17, 20, 72.
  • Magee, Chris., 99.
  • Materialism, 53.
  • Mencius, 51.
  • Merriam, Professor C. E., 270.
  • Michels, Professor Robert, 179.
  • Mistresses, royal, 90.
  • Mob rule, 17, 66.
  • Monarchies, corruption in, as compared with democracies, 54.
  • Monopolies, contracting rings, 13;
  • era of consolidation, 163.
  • Moral uprisings, 188.
  • More, Paul Elmer, 153.
  • Muckraking, 281.
  • Municipal corruption, 83, 84, 98, 101, 184.
  • Municipal ownership, 13.
  • Municipal Research, Bureau of, 184.
  • Myers, Gustavus, 280.
  • Nast, Thomas, 280.
  • Nationality, development of, 58;
  • spirit of, 89.
  • Nature of political corruption, 41.
  • Negro vote, 36.
  • Nepotism, 65, 66.
  • New York city, 14, 17, 71, 98, 106, 108, 280.
  • Notoriety, corruption and, 277.
  • Ochlocracy, 17, 66.
  • Ogg, Frederick A., 235.
  • Ohio State Board of Commerce, 197.
  • Oligarchy, financial, 26, 54.
  • Party organisation, 30, 43, 72, 201, 213, 214.
  • Passes, railroad, 60, 230.
  • Pepys, Samuel, 93-95.
  • Persistent problem, corruption as a, 81, 85, 86.
  • Personal interest involved in corruption, 65.
  • Plato, 6, 87.
  • Plutocracy, 26, 74.
  • Poland, 82.
  • Police forces, 9, 21, 55, 190.
  • Political science, university instruction in, 139.
  • Politics, corruption not limited to, 46, 48;
  • corruption in business and, 161, 169.
  • Poole, Ernest, 280.
  • Presidential Campaign Costs, 1908, 233.
  • Press, the—see journalism.
  • Primaries and conventions, political contributions for, 270.
  • Privilege, special, 28, 290.
  • Professions, corruption in the, 117.
  • Professors, dismissal of, 147.
  • Proletariat, 18.
  • Prosperity and corruption, 5, 53.
  • Protectionism, 293.
  • Prussia, 54, 84, 101, 291.
  • Publicity, campaign fund, 229;
  • before or after election, 236;
  • and candidates, 239;
  • organisations reporting, 241.
  • Public Service Commissions, 175.
  • Public utility service, 28.
  • Quay, Matthew S., 14.
  • Railroads, nationalisation of, 181;
  • passes, 60, 230.
  • Reform and reformers, 5, 11, 57, 75, 84, 100, 105, 287.
  • Reformation, the, 82, 84.
  • Republican National Committee, Report 1908, 233.
  • Richmond, Mary E., 22.
  • Riots, 19, 20, 66.
  • Roberts, Peter, 34.
  • Rome, 82, 89.
  • Roosevelt, Theodore, 65, 221, 225.
  • Root, Elihu, 244.
  • Ross, Professor Edward A., 167, 302.
  • Russia, 83.
  • Salaries of public officials, 177.
  • Salisbury, Lord, 84.
  • Sandwich, Lord, 93.
  • Schools, public, 23, 31, 36.
  • Schurman, Jacob G., 146.
  • Seeley, Professor J. R., 51, 88.
  • Settlements, social, 36.
  • Seward, William H., 71.
  • Shaw, Bernard, 288.
  • Short Ballot, 297.
  • Simkhovitch, Mary K., 69.
  • Sin and news, 284;
  • “smokeless” sin, 286.
  • Slang equivalents of corruption, 42.
  • Social groups, interrelations, 66;
  • individual interests and, 86.
  • Socialism, 57, 152, 179.
  • Society, the corrupt machine as the saviour of, 17;
  • corruption as evidence of maladjustment in, 23;
  • sweeping charges of corruption against, 57;
  • responsible in part for existing corruption, 70;
  • disintegrating effect of corruption upon, 81, 299;
  • forms of corruption in, 116, 161;
  • future of, 173;
  • fundamental strength of institutions of, 301.
  • Sociology, university instruction in, 139.
  • Spain, 84.
  • Special privileges, 28, 290.
  • Spencer, Herbert, 91.
  • State, welfare of the, contrasted with local welfare, 7;
  • corruption not confined to the state, 46;
  • caritative function of, 70;
  • Greek classifications of, 87;
  • primarily political forms of corruption, 169;
  • international corruption, 170.
  • State universities, 143.
  • Steffens, Lincoln, 4, 99, 278.
  • Stein, Freiherr vom, 101.
  • Swinton, John, 122.
  • Taft, William H., 236.
  • Tammany Hall, 17, 108.
  • Tax dodging, 60, 192.
  • “Ten per cent. rake-off,” 105.
  • Tennyson, Lord, 100.
  • Thompson, David G., 108.
  • Tweed, William M., 14, 98, 280.
  • United States, suppression of vice in, 9;
  • riots in, 19;
  • integration of population in, 31;
  • vote buying in, 36;
  • political morality of, compared with Europe, 53, 296;
  • uneven distribution of corruption in, 104;
  • academic freedom in, 143;
  • laisser faire doctrine in, 175;
  • party functions in, 213;
  • costliness of government in, 215;
  • privilege in, 290.
  • Universities and colleges, 48, 132, 139, 143.
  • Vice, gambling and, 6, 7-8, 186.
  • Virtue, political, 53, 54, 296.
  • Walpole, Horace, 83.
  • Ward, Professor Lester F., 122.
  • Washington, D. C., 253.
  • Wealth, growth of, 53.
  • Weed, Thurlow, 71.
  • Wendell, Professor Barrett, 285.
  • Wheatley, Henry B., 94, 95.
  • White, William Allen, 296.
  • “Wide-open” communities, 7, 298.
  • Wood, Fernando, 188.