Corruption by Design : Building Clean Government in Mainland China and Hong Kong / Melanie Manion.
2009
JQ1509.5.C6 ǂb M36 2004eb
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Title
Corruption by Design : Building Clean Government in Mainland China and Hong Kong / Melanie Manion.
Author
Manion, Melanie, author.
ISBN
9780674040519
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2004
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (295 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674040519 doi
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JQ1509.5.C6 ǂb M36 2004eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.1/323/0951
Summary
This book contrasts experiences of mainland China and Hong Kong to explore the pressing question of how governments can transform a culture of widespread corruption to one of clean government. Melanie Manion examines Hong Kong as the best example of the possibility of reform. Within a few years it achieved a spectacularly successful conversion to clean government. Mainland China illustrates the difficulty of reform. Despite more than two decades of anticorruption reform, corruption in China continues to spread essentially unabated. The book argues that where corruption is already commonplace, the context in which officials and ordinary citizens make choices to transact corruptly (or not) is crucially different from that in which corrupt practices are uncommon. A central feature of this difference is the role of beliefs about the prevalence of corruption and the reliability of government as an enforcer of rules ostensibly constraining official venality. Anticorruption reform in a setting of widespread corruption is a problem not only of reducing corrupt payoffs, but also of changing broadly shared expectations of venality. The book explores differences in institutional design choices about anticorruption agencies, appropriate incentive structures, and underlying constitutional designs that contribute to the disparate outcomes in Hong Kong and mainland China.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Anticorruption Reform in a Setting ofWidespread Corruption
2 Corruption and Anticorruption Reform in Hong Kong
3 An Explosion of Corruption in Mainland China
4 Problems of Routine Anticorruption Enforcement
5 Anticorruption Campaigns as Enforcement Mechanisms
6 Institutional Designs for Clean Government
Notes
Works Cited
Author Index
Subject Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Anticorruption Reform in a Setting ofWidespread Corruption
2 Corruption and Anticorruption Reform in Hong Kong
3 An Explosion of Corruption in Mainland China
4 Problems of Routine Anticorruption Enforcement
5 Anticorruption Campaigns as Enforcement Mechanisms
6 Institutional Designs for Clean Government
Notes
Works Cited
Author Index
Subject Index