Institutional Anticorruption in China: Effectiveness on Bribery Incidence

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ni, Xing; Su (Su Su), Xuhong
• 署名单位: Wuhan University; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/puar.13007
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 538-551
• 关键词: field experiment; voluntary provision; CORRUPTION; GOVERNMENT; REFORM; guanxi; Intermediaries; ORGANIZATIONS; culture; POWER

摘要

This article investigates the effectiveness of anticorruption practices against bribery incidence, highlighting top-down and bottom-up approaches. A random survey of local residents is used in conjunction with institutional anticorruption indicators. Findings suggest that the top-down approach works, but with substantial variation across practices. More intense top-down anticorruption deters bribery incidence within citizens' dense networks, and more judicial convictions directly suppress citizens' bribery experience and willingness. The bottom-up and combined approaches yield both deterrence and signaling effects, contingent on institutional parameters. More public whistle-blowing deters citizens' bribery experience and willingness, yet, when coupled with more intense top-down anticorruption, it signals severe government corruption and predicts more bribery incidence. On the contrary, more grievance filings predict more bribery incidence via signaling effects, but, when bundled with more intense top-down anticorruption, they deter citizens' subsequent bribery experience and willingness. The article concludes with a discussion of the research findings and theoretical and practical implications.