Institutional Congruence, Ideas, and Anticorruption Policy: The Case of China and the United States

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Yang, Kaifeng
• 署名单位: State University System of Florida; Florida State University
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2009.02102.x
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: S142-S150
• 关键词: corruption; DEMOCRACY

摘要

While international comparisons of anticorruption policies abound, whether these policies are transferable and how they change inside national boundaries remain debatable. Kaifeng Yang of Florida State University proposes an institutional framework that emphasizes the role of congruence and ideas in institutional change. In comparing China to the United States, the author concludes that anticorruption institutional change is path dependent, as it is nested in fundamental political structures and meta-narratives. Professor Yang proposes the possibility that new ideas may cause gradual changes with radical results.