Preventing Corruption in Asia
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 also examines other aspects of clean government such as the social environment, the legal and regulatory framework, the 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.
Ting Gong is Professor of Political Science at City University of Hong Kong. She has done extensive research on corruption and anti-corruption reform.
Stephen K. Ma is Professor of Political Science at California State University, Los Angeles. He has done extensive research on administrative ethics.
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Preventing corruption in Asia : institutional design and policy capacity / edited by Ting Gong and Stephen K. Ma.
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1. Political corruptionChinaPrevention. 2. ChinaPolitics and government2002- 3. CorruptionPrevention. I. Gong, Ting, 1955- II. Ma, Stephen K.
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Contributors
Muhittin Acar is an Associate Professor of Public Administration at Hacettepe University in Turkey. He holds a BA from Ankara University, an MPM from Carnegie Mellon University, and a PhD in public administration from the University of Southern California. His research focuses on accountability, integrity, and collaboration in public governance.
Gerald E. Caiden is a Professor of Public Administration in the School of Policy, Planning and Development at the University of Southern California. He is best known for his research in administrative and public sector reform, corruption and administrative ethics, and administrative culture and organizational diagnosis.
Hon S. Chan is a Professor and Head of the Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. His research focuses on civil service reforms, performance management, and the nomenklatura in the Peoples Republic of China.
Chun-Ming Chen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Policy and Management of Shih Hsin University, Taiwan. He has been conducting nation-wide Government Integrity Perception Surveys in Taiwan for six consecutive years since 2003.
O.P. Dwivedi, Order of Canada, PhD, LLD (Hon.), Dr Env. S. (Hon.), Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is Professor Emeritus, University of Guelph, Canada. He teaches comparative public policy and administration, and environmental policy and management. He has published 35 books and numerous articles and book chapters.
Uur Emek has been a senior expert in the State Planning Organization of Turkey since 1989. He holds a BA in business administration and a PhD in economics from Ankara University, and an MS in economics from Northeastern University. His research interests include competition policy; public finance, and Turkish economy.
Jie Gao holds a PhD from City University of Hong Kong and is an instructor in the Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests focus on performance management in the public sector, and cadre evaluation system in the Peoples Republic of China.
