responsible agencies should focus on three complementary forms almost always ineffective and often counterproductive in combating corruption:
1. METHOD AND CORRUPTION ERRORS
believe that the corrupt can forget a step, a step or a formality in a procurement procedure or making an administrative decision. Perhaps the opposite is more true: in contracts where there is corruption more rigorously observed the formalities, steps, procedures. If you review the contract around which debate has been more corruption (large arms purchase contracts, energy projects, or road infrastructure) these contracts could be from the formal point of view a real "model" of compliance of steps, requirements and procedures. A guide to making government contracting strictly following the letter of the law. Probably a whole group of advisers was aware that nothing was missing. On the contrary, many officials are fiscally punished by disciplinary or omit any requirement in the hiring process. Of course it is necessary to provide remedies to protect the performance of administrative or fiscal, but it is necessary to highlight this great mistake of confusing (or allow the confusion) between the informal (or irregularity) and corruption. Sometimes corruption requires circumvent (or violate) the procedures or formalities corrupt neglected in (also available). In such cases, the corrupt must feel relieved to be included in the huge list along with thousands of other officials upright, honest just committed a forgotten, ignored a missed step or a formality.
2. The great scandals among political adversaries
confuse informality
(Or administrative errors) with corruption scandals possible between political opponents for failure to contract procedures, budgetary or staff management. These desensitized on corruption scandals, as citizens perceive as a more political debate. Citizens lose any possibility of identifying recurring corrupt amid accusations of partisan home and endless discussions about complex procedures.
3. MASSIVE RESEARCH
massive research, complete the portfolio of ineffective or counterproductive ways of tackling corruption. The system investigation and trial (disciplinary and criminal) is not able to process tens or hundreds of thousands of cases. This overload leads to an absolute inertial system, which can not produce concrete results in any case. The limited resources of investigation and prosecution, are distracted and disoriented in a massive search for evidence without a real capacity to produce any concrete results. Again, corrupt officials may feel the relief of being included in a list of "investigation" that includes thousands of honest officials and accused admittedly irrelevant cases.
