Irsan Komarga offers the following royalty-free article for you to publish online or in print. Feel free to use this article in your newsletter, website, ezine, blog, or forum. ----------- PUBLICATION GUIDELINES - You have permission to publish this article for free providing the "About the Author" box is included in its entirety. - Do not post/reprint this article in any site or publication that contains hate, violence, porn, warez, or supports illegal activity. - Do not use this article in violation of the US CAN-SPAM Act. If sent by email, this article must be delivered to opt-in subscribers only. - If you publish this article in a format that supports linking, please ensure that all URLs and email addresses are active links. - Please send a copy of the publication, or an email indicating the URL to [email protected] - DistributeYourArticles (www.DistributeYourArticles.com) has distributed this article on behalf of the author. DistributeYourArticles does not own this article, please respect the author's copyright and publication guidelines. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use this article. ----------- Article Title: Important Research Agendas to Fix the Problem of Fixing Author: Irsan Komarga Category: Government Word Count: 414 Keywords: bureaucratic corruption,corruption,stop corruption Author's Email Address: [email protected] Article Source: http://www.distributeyourarticles.com ------------------ ARTICLE START ------------------
Some government agencies are prone to fixers' networks while others are not. Despite the same level of transactional density and the volume and magnitude of the transacting public, there are agencies both in the government sector and private sector where fixing is very minimal if not totally nil. The banks provide a very good example in this case. This is one area for further research. There has to be a way of establishing a sampling frame of fixers in order to establish a population sample for quantitative surveys and other demographic studies. There is a need to establish a database and tracking system on fixing per government agency and monitor the growth of fixers and their fixing activities. Academic and research institutions can help the government a lot in this area, where the aim is geared towards systematic profiling and qualification of bureaucratic corruption. Several professional fixers have been arrested by various law enforcement agencies. A baseline research will pose very useful in monitoring and analyzing the status of these arrests. It is also interesting to know if the insider fixers are likewise arrested. The study of income distribution and economic profiling of fixers found some patterns in terms of economic standing among fixers. Professional fixers are generally poor and are only subsisting on daily "tips." But their counterparts among the insider fixers are better off, since they also earn from fixing while continuously receiving their monthly salaries. However, there is a need to further validate the income distribution in fixing by conducting a systematic profiling of fixers. Researchers can further explore the assertion that social capital reduces corruption through the desirable social norms of trust, honesty and cooperation. What is needed is to see how the good side of social capital can be directly used to combat its dark side. While the bad side of social capital has the capacity to destroy the normal bureaucratic system, the good side should offer the countervailing force not only to reduce corruption, but also to facilitate bureaucratic efficiency, economic growth and other desirable features of society. There is a need to expand the concept of externalization in fixing to include the fixers themselves. In corruption, social capital is not based on mutual trust but on mutual fear, blackmail and the imposition of force not only against the external environment but even among the members of the fixers' networks. There is a need to explore the internalization of externality as a matter of strategy to help break the underground networks of fixers. Irsan's passion is to write on wide varieties of subjects. His latest writing is at http://www.acuvuecontactlenses.org which contains reviews on contact lense and other information about contact lenses. ------------------ ARTICLE END ------------------ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
