Public Choice (yeah) --> Institutions III (getting dismantled?)

Yeah, the good guys, do-gooders and others.

Wasn't it a certain Rod Blagojevich, who proudly claimed to clean up, to be the nice and proper guy, after his predecessor as Governor of Illinois was involved in corruption, scandals etc.? The good guy gets elected and turns bad (if he ever was good...). Roddie wanted to sell a Senate seat and faces himself impeachment...

and now, another gag - Italy (what else would you have guessed?) is back in the news. But this time, it's not Berlusconi, but the political left - ridere licet, but crying out loud is allowed too (from the Economist):

"On January 5th the centre-left mayor of Naples, Rosa Russo Iervolino, unveiled a new and reshuffled city administration. There were six new faces in her 16-strong team. Four of their predecessors had been arrested on suspicion of taking part in what prosecutors claim was a plan for the “systematic looting” of public funds. A fifth had committed suicide after he too came under investigation for corruption and other alleged offences.

The scandal in Naples, which revolves around a €400m ($545m) public-services contract, is the most substantial but by no means the only one to have assailed the opposition. Since the end of November, centre-left politicians have been put under suspicion, or even arrest, in seven other cities and regions."

Source:
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12906536


if you have ever believed, that some people, willing (maybe sometimes) to do something good, do actually good (for the public, hum ... or for themselves?:-) and never bad, read Mancur Olson.
Yeah, public choice - poor Italians: whoever they wanna vote for, it most likely will turn out to be a lemon....