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Article: Elite Power Competition and Corruption Investigation in China: A Case Study
Title | Elite Power Competition and Corruption Investigation in China: A Case Study |
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Authors | |
Keywords | elite power competition anticorruption corruption investigation patron insider provocateurs |
Issue Date | 2020 |
Publisher | Sage Publications, Inc. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=59 |
Citation | Modern China, 2020, v. 46 n. 3, p. 307-335 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This article uses an investigation-trigger framework to explain the process that stimulates investigations of corruption in China, which has been treated more as a black box in the past. Reviewing China’s current anticorruption system, we argue that local party leaders’ decisions directly trigger corruption investigations, and that power competition between political elites is a major catalyst of the trigger. Moreover, drawing upon rarely accessible documentation and interviews addressing the successive downfall of two public security bureau chiefs in City H, we identify two channels through which the investigation-trigger catalyst works: the diminished patronage of corrupt officials after patron turnovers, and government insiders’ unconventional provocation of political opponents. The cases analyzed in this article also show that outside intervention may rupture the local protection of corruption and facilitate investigations. This finding supports the 2012 reform of China’s corruption control system. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/258717 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 1.0 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.315 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Zhu, J | - |
dc.contributor.author | Li, H | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-08-22T01:42:56Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-08-22T01:42:56Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Modern China, 2020, v. 46 n. 3, p. 307-335 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0097-7004 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/258717 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This article uses an investigation-trigger framework to explain the process that stimulates investigations of corruption in China, which has been treated more as a black box in the past. Reviewing China’s current anticorruption system, we argue that local party leaders’ decisions directly trigger corruption investigations, and that power competition between political elites is a major catalyst of the trigger. Moreover, drawing upon rarely accessible documentation and interviews addressing the successive downfall of two public security bureau chiefs in City H, we identify two channels through which the investigation-trigger catalyst works: the diminished patronage of corrupt officials after patron turnovers, and government insiders’ unconventional provocation of political opponents. The cases analyzed in this article also show that outside intervention may rupture the local protection of corruption and facilitate investigations. This finding supports the 2012 reform of China’s corruption control system. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Sage Publications, Inc. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=59 | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Modern China | - |
dc.rights | Modern China. Copyright © Sage Publications, Inc. | - |
dc.subject | elite power competition | - |
dc.subject | anticorruption | - |
dc.subject | corruption investigation | - |
dc.subject | patron | - |
dc.subject | insider provocateurs | - |
dc.title | Elite Power Competition and Corruption Investigation in China: A Case Study | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Zhu, J: zhujn@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Zhu, J=rp01624 | - |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/0097700419845606 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85065528712 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 287639 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 46 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 3 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 307 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 335 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000524195400004 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0097-7004 | - |