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

Originally published: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Beyond enforcement : anticorruption reform as a problem of institutional design / Melanie Manion -- China's war on corruption / Andrew Wedeman -- Rent seeking under the licensing state : the institutional sources of economic corruption in China / Tak-Wing Ngo -- Cadre recruitment and corruption : what goes wrong? / Yan Sun -- The institutionalization of party discipline inspection in China : dynamics and dilemmas / Ting Gong -- "Policing the police" : a perennial challenge for China's anti-corruption agencies / Stephen K. Ma -- Preventing corruption through performance measurement : the case of China / Hon S. Chan and Jie Gao -- Japan, Korea, the Philippines, China : four syndromes of corruption / Michael Johnston -- Curbing corruption in a one-party dominant system : learning from Singapore's experience / Jon S.T. Quah -- Combating corruption in India : challenges and approaches / O.P. Dwivedi, D.S. Mishra and Meera Mishra -- Preventing corruption in Turkey : issues, instruments, and institutions / Muhittin Acar and UAür Emek -- Evolving perceptions of government integrity and changing anticorruption measures in Taiwan / Chilik Yu ... [and others] -- Corruption, culture and institutions : evidence from the Pacific Islands / Peter Lamour -- Concluding remarks : toward a cleaner governance / Gerald E. Caiden.

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, legal and regulatory framework, role of the public, and the impact of culture.