浅析罗马共和国后期的贿选

The Brief Analysis of Electoral Bribery in the Late Roman Republic

罗马共和国后期贿选的必要性在于公职的价值,贿选的可能性在于公民对选举的冷漠,使候选人能够操纵选举。作为罗马共和国后期政坛上的突出现象,贿选与共和国的衰亡有密切联系,它腐蚀了罗马人传统的道德风尚,刺激了政治腐败,动摇了共和体制。

The necessity of electoral bribery in the late Roman Republic lay in the value of public office and its possibility was due to the mass indifference which made the candidates to manipulate the election. It became the highlight in the late Roman Republic and it had a close relation with the decline and fall of Roman Republic. It eroded the conventional morality of the Romans and encouraged the political corruption and shook the system of the republic.