nonfeasance

Examples of malfeasance

malfeasance
Against a background of corporate greed and malfeasance, a renewed focus on transparency and accountability is or seems to be permeating the business world.
Donors have often stressed the lack of 'political will ', to account for limited action against high-level state malfeasance.
In addition, voters must be able to assess whether the politicians actually are engaging in malfeasance.
In neither case, however, were personal relations alone seen as an effective guarantee against malfeasance.
Voters' ability to monitor the relevant actors depends on the voters' ability, first, to observe malfeasance if it occurs and, secondly, to organize for oversight.
Yet because of their dependence on brokers for facilitating procurement and other essential services government officials rarely took decisive action to curb malfeasance.
In other words, elections provide both incentives for politicians to enact certain kinds of policies and constraints on politicians' malfeasance.
In the absence of rival entities there may be no effective way to counter official malfeasance.
Proponents of regulation anticipate that they may use the courts to prevent such political interference and bureaucratic malfeasance.
Centralists find the concentration of power (within a democratic framework) to be conducive to good governance, while decentralists are convinced that a consolidation of power usually leads to malfeasance.
As we noted above, challengers have a direct incentive to uncover the malfeasance of incumbents because they increase their probability of winning office once the incumbent is discredited.
People who lacked control over bureaucratic malfeasance and injustice used petitions to involve the secretary-general in their everyday concerns in order to have their demands fulfilled and justice restored.
On the other hand, if relative to the gravity of the misdemeanour the private benefit from malfeasance were high, some transgressions could be expected to take place.
Offences of theft and other malfeasance in the course of employment would be likely to have occurred in other forms of employment, such as within factories.
What social capital can do is to increase the ' yield ' of such resources by reinforcing them with the voluntary efforts of participants and their monitoring capacity to prevent malfeasance.
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