Impervious Corruption: President Trump and the Deformation of Democracy

IF 4.9 1区管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Public Administration Review Pub Date : 2025-08-23 DOI:10.1111/puar.70027

Barry Bozeman

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Abstract

A new set of political corruption concepts is introduced, impervious corruption foremost among them. Impervious corruption occurs when a corrupt political actor is unchecked by institutional guardians, giving the corrupt individual a sense of invulnerability. The resultant relationship between impervious corruption and deformation of democracy is then explained. The focus turns to President Donald Trump's political corruption and shows how the current United States political ecology has suborned his corrupt behavior. It is suggested that President Trump is an innovator in political corruption, engaging in acts heretofore not evident in the political history of the United States. The concluding section provides a set of prescriptions for addressing corruption and attendant deformation of democracy. These prescriptions do not require direct action from government institutions, reasoning that some official guardian institutions have been systematically diminished by the Trump administration and some political leaders have put partisan loyalty over their Constitutional duties.

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《不可渗透的腐败：特朗普总统和民主的变形

引入了一套新的政治腐败概念，其中最重要的是不渗透的腐败。当一个腐败的政治行为者不受制度监护人的约束时，就会发生不受伤害的腐败，给腐败的个人一种无懈可击的感觉。然后解释了不可渗透的腐败与民主变形之间的关系。焦点转向了唐纳德·特朗普总统的政治腐败，并展示了当前美国政治生态如何纵容了他的腐败行为。有人认为，特朗普总统是政治腐败的创新者，从事的行为在美国政治史上迄今为止并不明显。最后一节提供了一套解决腐败和随之而来的民主变形的处方。这些处方不需要政府机构采取直接行动，理由是一些官方守护机构已被特朗普政府系统性地削弱，一些政治领导人将党派忠诚置于宪法职责之上。

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Public Administration Review PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION-

CiteScore

15.10

自引率

10.80%

发文量

130

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