Following the recent series of scandals, the average Indian does not believe this anymore.

So far, there have been few open scandals.

Many investigations have been ordered into the current corruption scandals.

As the date gets closer more and more scandals are coming to light.

Three months into the biometric data submission period, there have already been a number of scandals.

At the end of 1997, the second Klaus government collapsed under the weight of financial scandals.

Moreover, the LDP was plagued by a string of minor scandals and consistent bungling.

As the Sochi Games edge closer, and the scandals keep piling up, is Varlamov right?

If Zuma is still president after this ordeal, we're a spineless joke of a constitutional democracy StateCaptureReport Mpumelelo Nkosi ( Don_Nkosi) November 2, 2016

The spate of sex scandals is a sign of more serious corruption and degradation than most commentators seem to realize.

Why are there no such scandals in the housing and communal services sector in Moscow, as there are in many other regions?

Most of these scandals never saw the light of day the goal was pressure, not disclosure.

But it is facile to jump from individual corporate scandals to broad conclusions about the supposed rottenness of the American economy.

Global Voices has been covering the role of the blogosphere in investigating a number of corruption scandals (e.g. here and here).

Videotape sex scandals have given Georgians the impression they are living in a surveillance state.

But, just as Kan is planning only to discuss raising taxes, the supposedly clean DPJ is planning only to discuss the problem of money in politics by establishing a new non partisan commission to investigate the problem.

Japan, however, cannot afford to waste time building a new apparatus to prevent party financing scandals.

The 2015 General elections have been turned into a theatre of hate speeches and campaigns colored in a form that defies logic and common sense.

There is nothing modest about that achievement, given Brazil s traditional institutional instability and the series of major corruption scandals that engulfed Lula s government in 2005 and 2006.

For the last year, however, Vkontakte s creator and general manager, Pavel Durov, has been at the center of several scandals choreographed to force his ouster.

Scandals and slurs have dominated this election to such an extent that many worry it will become the new norm.

The US preaches good governance in the shadow of an unprovoked war, congressional bribery scandals, and windfalls for politically connected companies like Halliburton.

It was exhilarating and intimidating at the same time... And I am prouder of Evita than anything else I have done.

UBS is both huge it was the biggest asset manager in the world until recently and has been struggling from one scandal to the next for years.

When the scandal was featured in Chinese newspapers and websites, it caused outrage among consumers who have been hit by a series of food scandals in recent years.

Given the cloud of scandal that hangs over her two predecessors, the criticism Koike has faced so far, particularly in regards to financial matters, is hardly surprising.

Let us hope that, emerging out of today's scandals, there will be a renewed commitment to live up to these ideals and to strengthen the institutions that were designed to enforce them.

In retrospect, the charge seems like rank hypocrisy.

Nevertheless, given corruption scandals involving prominent government figures that have come to light over the past few years, it is natural to wonder why the stock market has remained so strong.

And Berlusconi, consumed as he is with defending his difficult position as the main protagonist in a seemingly endless soap opera of sex scandals, is not capable of reining in such blatant provocations on the part of the Lega Nord.

In retrospect, the charge seems like rank hypocrisy. America has shown itself to be second to none in practicing cronyism, first with its rotten corporate scandals of recent years, and now in Iraq.

In a final effort to reduce the impact of all these scandals, Toledo published an open letter, declaring that none of his brothers were authorized to represent him.

However, some events such as a wave of corporate scandals or a stock market crash can interrupt the ordinary pro insider operations of interest group politics by leading ordinary citizens to pay attention corporate governance failures.

In the weeks leading up to the elections, it seemed that the public had grown weary of a prime minister who had been in office long enough to be corrupted by the arrogance of power and tainted by a raft of petty scandals.

One of the major scandals was the Russian president's failure to meet with one of the founders of Google, Sergey Brin, who was born in Moscow and is known for his skeptical attitude towards the Russian authorities.

But a series of scandals, some involving billions of dollars, has now seriously undermined that elite s standing in the eyes of the Indian public.

Miheil Saakashvili has to pay more attention to internal public relations and reduce the incidence of falling bricks, and even so, when the next brick fall off, it has to come down without such a rumble.

They recognize that prisons, as uniquely divisive and authoritarian institutions, regularly give rise to behaviors that appear depraved to the wider world but come to seem acceptable even normal behind bars. Indeed, some of the most publicized prison scandals have erupted in the United States, which incarcerates more people in absolute and per capita terms than any other country.

Indeed, some of the most publicized prison scandals have erupted in the United States, which incarcerates more people in absolute and per capita terms than any other country.

Many viewed the invitation as a foul move that underestimated Trump's disrespect for Mexico, while others saw it as yet another bad decision in a series of scandals now plaguing President Peña

He could have groveled his way through the trial, like other senior Party officials brought down by corruption scandals, and as most defendants have done in the long grim history of communist show trials beginning with Stalin. But Bo apparently is not accepting his political demise as a final act in his closing statement, he told the court that he wanted to keep his Party membership (he was expelled anyway) and a comeback calculus may well have motivated his spirited performance.

In the 1990s, there were a whole series of scandals concerning the production of brand name goods in the U.S. child labor, forced labor, serious health and safety abuses.

He could have groveled his way through the trial, like other senior Party officials brought down by corruption scandals, and as most defendants have done in the long grim history of communist show trials beginning with Stalin.

America exported its culture of corporate irresponsibility non transparent stock options, which encourage the bad accounting that has played a role in this debacle, just as it did in the Enron and Worldcom scandals a few years ago.

Residents are looking for a governor who will put their needs first, after the capital's two preceding governors stepped down before the expiration of their respective terms due chiefly to money scandals.