Preventing Corruption in Asia: Institutional Design and Policy Capacity

ISBN-13: 9780415484084 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 250 str.

Ting Gong;Stephen K Ma

Opis

Despite intensified governmental and public efforts at corruption control in recent years, official transgression continues to surface in various ways of abusing the unique power and trust that a government holds.

Preventing Corruption in Asia addresses a number of crucial questions:

-What institutional arrangements are necessary to ensure a clean and honest government?

- What self-regulatory capabilities must government institutions develop in order to maintain integrity?

-How should a sense of ethical responsibility be instilled in the civil services?

-Do special anti-corruption agencies help keep government clean?

-How will a regulatory framework of official conduct work properly?

-How useful are anti-corruption campaigns in containing corruption?

Focusing on a number of carefully selected countries in the Asia and Pacific region, the book sets as its focal point the choice of institutional design in preventing corruption, rather than treating corruption as a practical or technical problem to be corrected by strong political will and good anti-corruption policy measures. While focusing on institutional designs and policy choices, the book will also examine other aspects of clean government such as the social environment, legal and regulatory framework, role of the public, and the impact of culture.

Preventing Corruption in Asia will be of interest to those studying Asian politics, Chinese politics, comparative political economy, comparative development studies and Asian cooperation.

Spis treści

1. Beyond Enforcement: Anticorruption Reform as a Problem of Institutional Design    Part 1: Anticorruption Reform in the People’s Republic of China  2. China’s War on Corruption  3. Rent Seeking under the Licensing State: The Institutional Sources of Economic Corruption in China  4. Cadre Recruitment And Corruption: What Goes Wrong?  5. The Institutionalization of Party Discipline Inspection in China: Dynamics and Dilemmas  6. "Policing The Police": A Perennial Challenge for China’s Anticorruption Agencies  7. Preventing Corruption Through Performance Measurement  Part 2: Corruption and Institutional Design: Learning Across Regions  8. Japan, Korea, the Philippines, China: Four Syndromes of Corruption  9. Curbing Corruption in a One-Party Dominant System: Learning from Singapore’s Experience 10. Combating Corruption in India: Challenges and Approaches  11. Preventing Corruption in Turkey: Issues, Instruments, and Institutions  12. Evolving Perceptions of Government Integrity and Changing Anticorruption Measures in Taiwan  13. Corruption, Culture and Institutions: Evidence from the Pacific Islands.  Concluding Remarks: Toward Cleaner Governance?