Editing Political corruption (section)

==In fiction ==
The following are examples of works of fiction that portray political corruption in various forms:
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* ''[[The Government Inspector]]'' – 1836 play by [[Nikolai Gogol]]<ref name="Gallaher City Arts">{{cite news |last1=Gallaher|first1=Rachel|title=Just Let Me Laugh at 'The Government Inspector' |url=https://www.cityartsmagazine.com/just-let-laugh-government-inspector/ |access-date=March 3, 2019 |work=City Arts Magazine |date=October 31, 2017}}</ref>
* ''[[Democracy: An American Novel|Democracy]]'' – 1880 novel by [[Henry Adams]]<ref name="Meacham NYT">{{cite news |last1=Meacham |first1=Jon |author-link = Jon Meacham |title=Henry Adams's 1880 Novel, 'Democracy,' Resonates Now More Than Ever |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/books/review/henry-adams-democracy-.html |access-date=March 3, 2019 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=September 11, 2018 |quote=It is a reflection on corruption within the political class, but, read carefully, it also reinforces an ancient view that those who are disgusted with republican government need to remember that the fault, as Cassius in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" remarked, lies not in the stars, but in ourselves.}}</ref>
* ''[[The Financier]]'' – 1912 novel by [[Theodore Dreiser]]<ref name="Frum Financier">{{cite web |last1=Frum |first1=David | author-link = David Frum|title=The Financier |url=http://davidfrum.com/article/the-financier |publisher=FrumForum |access-date=March 3, 2019 |quote=Cowperwood had to build his fortune in a world in which interest rates of 10% and 15% were very commonplace things, and not just because people were poor and money was scarce. Capital was expensive because business was so non-transparent. Companies disclosed only what they wished to disclose, and investors demanded compensation for the huge risk that nasty surprises might be concealed in company books.  Cowperwood's solution? He discovers and puts to his own use the corrupt practices of the city government of Philadelphia, described by Lincoln Steffens as perhaps the worst governed big city in late 19th century America. Cowperwood strikes a deal with the city treasurer: the treasurer will lend him money from the city treasury at nominal rates – and with this money, Cowperwood will build fortunes for them both.}}</ref><ref name="Lingeman American Heritage">{{cite journal |last1=Lingeman |first1=Richard |title=The Titan |journal=American Heritage |issue=Feb. / March 1993 |url=https://www.americanheritage.com/titan |access-date=March 3, 2019 |quote=But he did write more, including his monumental trilogy The Financier, The Titan, and The Stoic, in which he traced the rise of finance capitalism and its corruption of municipal government through the career of the predatory transit magnate Frank Cowperwood (based on the streetcar king Charles Tyson Yerkes).}}</ref>
* ''[[The Titan (novel)|The Titan]]'' – 1914 novel by Theodore Dreiser, sequel to ''The Financier''<ref name="Frum Titan">{{cite web |last1=Frum |first1=David |title=The Titan |url=http://davidfrum.com/article/the-titan |publisher=FrumForum |access-date=March 3, 2019 |quote=So Cowperwood invents a brilliant plan. He will not seek a renewal for himself. Instead, he has secret political associates launch an anti-Cowperwood campaign! They will demand that streetcar monopolists like Cowperwood be regulated by a new Public Utility Commission. The Commission will set rates, approve routes, and generally protect the public from the likes of Frank Cowperwood.  Of course, the advocates of the commission acknowledge that the regulated companies will need some compensation for this new public vigilance. So they propose a compromise: in exchange for accepting the commission, all city franchises will be extended by 50 years.  The commission proposal is advanced in the Illinois legislature, a body even more corrupt if possible than the Chicago city council. Dreiser minutely describes the protocol of corruption – how a bribe is asked, how it is offered, how it is paid, how much a vote goes for.}}</ref><ref name="Lingeman American Heritage" />
* ''[[Washington Merry-Go-Round (film)|Washington Merry-Go-Round]]'' – 1932 film directed by [[James Cruze]]<ref name="Arnold TCM">{{cite web |last1=Arnold |first1=Jeremy |title=Washington Merry-Go-Round |url=https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/203323 |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=March 3, 2019 |quote=The title was certainly fresh enough in the public discourse to tell audiences that the film would probably address political corruption. Columbia Pictures bought the rights to the title and commissioned a fictional story of Congressman Button Gwinnett Brown, who draws the ire of his crooked colleagues to the extent that they trump up a recount to try and unseat him.}}</ref>
* ''[[Mr. Smith Goes to Washington]]'' – 1939 film directed by [[Frank Capra]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/features/dcmovies/mrsmithgoestowashington.htm?noredirect=on|title=washingtonpost.com: 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'|website=www.washingtonpost.com|access-date=2019-02-01|quote = But this film caused quite a stir in this town in 1939. The Washington Press Club sponsored a premiere at Constitution Hall that was attended by congressmen, Senators and Supreme Court justices. About halfway through the film, people started walking out. At another dinner, Capra was criticized for showing graft in the Senate. The Washington press corps, who didn't like the way reporters were portrayed, joined in the attacks against Capra. }}</ref>
* ''[[Animal Farm]]'' – 1945 novel by [[George Orwell]]<ref name="Garton Ash Hoover">{{cite journal |last1=Garton Ash |first1=Timothy | author-link = Timothy Garton Ash |title=Why Orwell Matters |journal=Hoover Digest |volume=2001 |date=October 30, 2001 |issue=4 |url=https://www.hoover.org/research/why-orwell-matters |access-date=March 3, 2019 |quote=Animal Farm is a timeless satire on the central tragi-comedy of all politics – that is, the tragi-comedy of corruption by power.}}</ref>
* ''[[All the King's Men]]'' – 1946 novel by [[Robert Penn Warren]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/books/all-the-kings-men-now70-has-a-touch-of-2016.html|title='All the King's Men,' Now 70, Has a Touch of 2016|newspaper=The New York Times |date=11 April 2016 |access-date=2018-09-11|language=en|last1=Garner |first1=Dwight }}</ref>
* ''[[The Stoic]]'' – 1947 novel by Theodore Dreiser, sequel to ''The Titan''<ref name="Lingeman American Heritage" />
* ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'' – 1957 novel by [[Ayn Rand]]<ref name="Stanford Rand">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Ayn Rand |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ayn-rand/ |encyclopedia=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |access-date=March 3, 2019 |quote=''Atlas Shrugged'' offers a complex and compelling depiction of the economic, political, and moral corruption spawned by "cronyism" between government and business.}}</ref>
* ''[[Touch of Evil]]'' – 1958 film directed by [[Orson Welles]]<ref name="Malcolm Touch of Evil">{{cite news |last1=Malcolm |first1=Derek |title=Orson Welles: A Touch of Evil |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/1999/jan/07/derekmalcolmscenturyoffilm.derekmalcolm |access-date=March 26, 2019 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=7 January 1999 |quote=...it was generally underrated by the American critics of the time, who saw in it merely an eccentric thriller rather than a calculatedly dramatic study of the corruption of power and the difference between morality and justice.}}</ref>
* ''[[Gumapang Ka Sa Lusak]]'' – 1990 film directed by [[Lino Brocka]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://cnnphilippines.com/life/entertainment/film/2016/09/09/lav-diaz-charo-santos-cover.html|title=Charo Santos and her triumphant return to film in Lav Diaz's 'Ang Babaeng Humayo'|work=cnn|access-date=2018-09-11|language=en|archive-date=2018-09-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180911114537/http://cnnphilippines.com/life/entertainment/film/2016/09/09/lav-diaz-charo-santos-cover.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''[[Sa Kabila ng Lahat]]'' – 1990 film directed by [[Lino Brocka]]{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}
* ''[[Sick Puppy]]'' – 2000 novel by [[Carl Hiaasen]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bostonreview.net/fiction/james-hynes-carl-hiaasen-sick-puppy|title=Carl Hiaasen, Sick Puppy|last=Hynes|first=James|date=1 February 2000|website=Boston Review|access-date=23 February 2019}}</ref>
* ''[[Exit Wounds]]'' – 2001 film directed by [[Andrzej Bartkowiak]]{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}
* ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'' – 2003 novel by [[J.K Rowling]]
* ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'' – 2007 novel by [[J.K Rowling]]
* ''[[American Gangster (film)|American Gangster]]'' – 2007 film directed by [[Ridley Scott]]{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}
* ''[[Guru (2007 film)|Guru]]'' – 2007 film directed by [[Mani Ratnam]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/movies/15guru.html|title=Polyester and Power at Play for a Mogul and His India|last=Webster|first=Andy|date=January 15, 2007|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=September 11, 2018}}</ref>
* ''[[House of Cards (U.S. TV series)|House of Cards]]'' – 2013–2018 web television series created by [[Beau Willimon]]<ref name="New Statesman House of Cards">{{cite news |last1=Staples |first1=Louis |title=The House of Cards ending summed up everything abhorrent about 2018 |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2018/11/Netflix-house-cards-ending-review |access-date=March 3, 2019 |work=New Statesman |date=7 November 2018 |quote=House of Cards displayed the corruption of America's institutions and the elites who manipulate them as they become intoxicated by the pursuit of power, money and status. But amongst the backstabbing and political games, the cleverest thing about the show was the fact that its main characters – Francis and Claire Underwood – were merciless and evil, but also likeable.}}</ref>
* ''[[Ang Probinsyano]]'' – 2015–2022's longest running action-suspense drama about a policeman turned revolutionary vigilante played by [[Coco Martin]] and a television adaptation based on the 1997 film itself
* ''[[The Iron Heart (TV series)|The Iron Heart]]'' – 2022–2023 sci-fi-action crime-espionage-political thriller series
* ''[[Dirty Linen (TV series)|Dirty Linen]]'' – 2023 socio-political crime-mystery-suspense series
* ''[[Wicked (2024 film)|Wicked]]'' – 2024 film based on the [[Wicked (musical)|2003 musical of the same name]]
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