Thursday, May 26, 2016

Ryan Monte Comparative Government

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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