In a recent issue of Time Magazine, Fareed Zakaria writes
Special interests [in the US] pay politicians vast amounts of cash for their campaigns and in return they get favorable exemptions or credits in the tax code. In other countries, this sort of bribery takes place underneath bridges and with cash in brown envelopes … (October 31, 2011, page 19)
This echoes views held by some people in Mauritius who see political party financing as the root of all corruption.
