Corruption in China

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

Corruption in China has attracted substantial academic attention. While the Chinese economy and human well-being have grown rapidly in the past three decades, corruption has also increased. The anti-corruption campaign in 2012 brought substantial social and political changes, promoting research at both provincial and individual levels. This panel focuses on corruption in China and the political and economic consequences of the anti-corruption campaign. Papers in this panel examine: how corruption influences the level of protest; how anti-corruption campaigns change the quality and representativeness of bureaucrats; and how anti-corruption campaigns change citizen’s trust in the government. This panel also addresses variation across provinces by exploring policy compliance under the campaign, as well as how provincial-level party institutionalization mitigates the effects of corruption.

Sub Unit

• Division 11: Comparative Politics

Individual Presentations

• Subnational Party Institutionalization and its Mitigation Effect on Corruption - Min Rosemary Pang, Penn State University

• Sweeping Away the “Blacks”: Policy Compliance of Authoritarian Bureaucrats - Jiangnan Zhu, The University of Hong Kong; siqin kang, University of Hong Kong

• Anticorruption and Adverse Selection in the Chinese Bureaucracy - Zijie Shao, Communication University of China

• An Empirical Study on Anticorruption and Political Trust in China - LI LI, Tsinghua University; Yiping Wu, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics

Chair

• Yuhua Wang Harvard University

Discussants

• Yuhua Wang Harvard University

• Peter L. Lorentzen University of San Francisco