Preventing corruption in Asia : institutional design and policy capacity / edited by Ting Gong and Stephen K. Ma.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gong, Ting, 1955-

Ma, Stephen K.

Series:

Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

Routledge contemporary Asia series ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political corruption--China--Prevention.

Political corruption.

Corruption--Prevention.

Corruption.

China--Politics and government--2002-.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<P>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. </P><P></P><P><EM>Preventing Corruption in Asia</EM> addresses a number of crucial questions:</P><P>-What institutional arrangements are necessary to ensure a clean and honest government? </P><P>- What self-regulatory capabilities must government institutions develop in order to maintain integrity?</P><P>-How should a sense of ethical responsibility be instilled in the civil servi

Contents:

Cover; Preventing Corruption in Asia: Institutional Design and Policy Capacity; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Beyond enforcement: Anticorruption reform as a problem of institutional design; Part I 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 agencies7 Preventing corruption through performance measurement: The case of China; Part II 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 Taiwan13 Corruption, culture and institutions: Evidence from the Pacific Islands; 14 Concluding remarks: Toward cleaner governance?; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-134-01410-4

0-415-66599-X

1-283-51991-7

1-134-01411-2

9786613832368

0-203-87976-7

9780203879764

OCLC:

804661655