The two most corrupt governments
that can be seen are China and Iran. China
is an openly socialist and communist state that has a national assembly and a
president that serves as a figurehead, while the premier of China has all executive
power. Iran is theocratic-democratic nation that combines the ideas of democracy
and theocracy by putting the Islamic jurists over the political figures in a
system called the Supreme Leadership. Iran is corrupt for two reasons. First
they constantly censor free speech and press, and all news is a state run
source, leading to inherently biased news, and because Iran allows the Islamic
religion to have power over the elected officials, leading to a lack of freedom
of religion and to an increase in clerical influence over policy. Iran could
become less corrupt if they would separate the religion from the state and
allow for a truly democratic government.
China is corrupt for two reasons as
well. China has a democratically elected president, however he holds no real
power and services as a figurehead, showing that the peoples votes and voices don’t
count. Another reason is that the communist party is the only political party
and that means that since there is no opposition, the communist party wins
every time. This shows a lack choice and a great amount of corruption, as the
officials have no reason to do their job because they will always get reelected.
If China would reform their constitution to allow a more varied political spectrum
then there would be more representation in the Government.
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