Corruption control in post-reform China : a social censure perspective / Guoping Jiang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jiang, Guoping, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political corruption--China.

Political corruption.

China.

China--Politics and government--1949-.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

viii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer, [2017]

Summary:

The book examines corruption control in post-reform China. Contrary to the normal perception that corruption is a type of behavior that violates the law, the author seeks to approach the issue from a social censure perspective, where corruption is regarded as a form of social censure intended to maintain the hegemony of the ruling bloc. Such an approach integrates societal structure, political goals, and agency into a single framework to explain dynamics in corruption control. With both qualitative data from officials in power and officials in jail and quantitative data from university students, the book explores how the censure on corruption was created and has been applied from 1978 to the present. Though primarily intended for academics, the book is also accessible for general audiences, especially given its intriguing perspective and use of firsthand data on corruption that cannot be found anywhere else.

Contents:

Corruption and anticorruption in China

Corruption-Theories and Perspectives

A Contextualized Approach: Theory of Social Censure

Methods

Shift of mode: from a mass line approach to a bureaucratic approach

Status of Law

Creation of Social Censure on Corruption

Application of social censure on corruption

Outcome of social censure on corruption

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789811040498

9811040494

OCLC:

970684084