The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind

by Raghuram G. Rajan

So why not stay with the known fixer even if it means the idealist is defeated? Thus the circle is complete. The poor and the underprivileged need the politician to help them get jobs and public services. The crooked politician needs the businessman to provide the funds that allow him to supply patronage to the poor and fight elections. The corrupt businessman needs the crooked politician to get monopoly rights, public resources, and contracts cheaply. The politician needs the votes of the poor and the underprivileged. Every constituency is tied to the other in a cycle of dependence. Furthermore, there is little incentive for anyone to improve public administration and public services, because it is by filling the gaps left by the incompetent public administration that the corrupt politician maintains his vital role. Indeed, he is responsible for some of the incompetence of the administration, since it is he who overfills its positions with unqualified but loyal supporters.

Corrupt politics in india due to civil servants neither being civil or servant to poors