I would recommend looking into Robert Caro’s work. He’s quite literally the world’s leading journalist on curruption and power. His book The Power Broker in particular is a really good exploration of this in the real world . He’s famously quoted as arguing that power has no influence on curruption, other than that it simply reveals existing curruption in individuals. In particular his arguments hinge on the idea that when you can finally do anything you want, you do