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Corruption by design [[electronic resource] ] : building clean government in mainland China and Hong Kong / / Melanie Manion



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Autore: Manion Melanie <1955-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Corruption by design [[electronic resource] ] : building clean government in mainland China and Hong Kong / / Melanie Manion Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
Disciplina: 364.1/323/0951
Soggetto topico: Political corruption - China - Prevention
Political corruption - China - Hong Kong - Prevention
Political corruption - Prevention
Political corruption - China
Political corruption - China - Hong Kong
Political corruption
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Corruption by design  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-674-04051-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910454685203321
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