This paper presents a new approach to the Machiavellianism (manipulation) interaction social behavior theory, based on game models. Machiavellian players are those who employ Machiavellian tactics, immorality and views in order to achieve their goals. In the game, the tactics and the immorality are represented by quasi-concave functions, and the views are represented by a quasi-convex function....

The health sector often appears prominent in surveys of perceived corruption, because citizens experience the symptoms of systemic corruption most distressingly during their interaction with frontline health workers. However, the underlying drivers of systemic corruption in society may be located in other social systems with the health system demonstrating the symptoms ...

But any of the following or countless other statements reporting the existence of evils of certain kinds or in certain amounts or distributed in a certain way might be thought to be better suited for the job : E2. The world contains instances of suffering and immorality. E3. The world contains instances of suffering that do not result from human immorality. E4. Many animals suffer intensely for...

Corruption is almost exist in all human societies throughout thehistory. Any continuation of corruption in different ages made most ofresearchers and policy makers to consider corruption as an inevitablepart of human being challenges (Mukum, 2008).Administrative corruption is common in most developed and/orunder –developed countries.In other words, there is no country in the world that has note...

governments around the worlds especially in developing countries face with tremendous challenges.  high or moderate rate of corruption can be named as one of the most important of these challenges.  corruption and its inefficiency can deviate resources allocation to unproductive sectors of economy. trust in social networks or within the society has two antithetic effects in deployment of corrup...

The theme of the representations of women in contemporary Italian media has become the object of intense political debates recently, in connection with a series of sex scandals that marked the final phases of Berlusconi’s government. The sexism that has been dominating mainstream media—and particularly television—is often taken as an epitome of Berlusconism’s immorality and corruption. Several ...

Hutchinson et al offer a compelling argument for greater attention to and work in corruption in healthcare. We indeed need to talk about corruption, to understand and to grasp how to prevent and address it. This paper lays out some of the rationale for how to define the research questions, how best to address corruption – arguing that governance rather than corruption may offer a preferred star...