0 an example of dishonest and illegal behaviour, especially by a person in authority: --
Several cases of malpractice and malfeasance in the financial world are currently being investigated.
1 the fact of someone in a position of authority intentionally doing something dishonest or illegal: --
What social capital can do is to increase the ' yield ' of such resources by reinforcing them with the voluntary efforts of participants and their monitoring capacity to prevent malfeasance.
Offences of theft and other malfeasance in the course of employment would be likely to have occurred in other forms of employment, such as within factories.
On the other hand, if relative to the gravity of the misdemeanour the private benefit from malfeasance were high, some transgressions could be expected to take place.
People who lacked control over bureaucratic malfeasance and injustice used petitions to involve the secretary-general in their everyday concerns in order to have their demands fulfilled and justice restored.
As we noted above, challengers have a direct incentive to uncover the malfeasance of incumbents because they increase their probability of winning office once the incumbent is discredited.
Centralists find the concentration of power (within a democratic framework) to be conducive to good governance, while decentralists are convinced that a consolidation of power usually leads to malfeasance.
Proponents of regulation anticipate that they may use the courts to prevent such political interference and bureaucratic malfeasance.
In the absence of rival entities there may be no effective way to counter official malfeasance.