A Statistical Analysis of the Chinese Higher Educational Corruption

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Abstract

Corruption in Chinese higher educational sector is an increasing concern but little systematically studied. This paper is an initial effort in providing empirical evidence on the typology of major corruption structures and distributions among Chinese higher educational sectors. A randomized sample of 275 university corruption cases court decisions during 1994-2009 was used in this study, and complemented with a perception-based survey in different Chinese universities. This study finds out a multi-dimension nature of corruption in this field. The main findings are: non-academic specific corruption takes up an disproportionate high portion compared to academic specific corruption in Chinese universities. None of scholarly academic corruption was detected from the legal approach though there is obvious reflection of academic corruption in the perception-based data analysis. The typology analysis has mostly similar conclusion in Chinese university administrative corruption but different in that of academic corruption compared to the perception-based data analysis. What has been neglected is the lack of sector-specific Chinese central government anti-corruption initiatives.

Author

• Qingli Meng, University of Northern Iowa