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189 | Brian Klaas on Power and the Temptation of Corruption

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Parking Ticket Story for the U.N. Diplomats

In the late 19 nineties into the early two thousands, diplomats at the united nations had diplomatic immunity from at least minor crimes. This meant that there were a hundred and 50 thousand parking tickets racked up by various u.N. Officials who had diplomatic cimmunity. And what they found was that in the pre enforcement period, all the sort of non corrupt countries,. diplomats parked pretty normally, legally, and all the corrupt countries, diplomats parked illegally a lot. So it's basically a pre and post accountability, natural experiment the wild west of enow lack of accountability, and then all of a sudden, the risk of real consequences.

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