近闻一新名词 ,曰“腐败成本” ,指的是腐败者腐败后所付出的代价。一般而言 ,代价越高 ,腐败者的顾忌越多 ,腐败的行为就会越少 ;相反 ,代价越低 ,腐败者的机会就越多 ,反腐败的难度就越大。报刊上曾刊登过这样一个案例 :1 995年湖南衡阳县电力局局长陈昭明因受贿 5 3万元被判 Recently heard a new term, saying “corruption costs”, refers to the corrupt who paid the price. In general, the higher the costs, the more scruples the corrupts will have and the fewer corruption will be. Conversely, the lower the cost, the more opportunities for the corrupt and the more difficult it will be to fight corruption. The newspaper published a case such as this: In 1995, Hunan Hengyang County Power Bureau Director Chen Zhaoming was convicted for taking bribes of 53,000 yuan