In recent years, much has been said about governance and corruption in Asia, both before and after the crisis of 1997. This edited volume analyzes the causes of corruption in East and Southeast Asia and considers the means to limit and, where possible, eliminate it problem through better governance.
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
This introduction describes some of the discussions at the conference and thus provides additional context for the book. Corruption must be checked and, if possible, eliminated, not only for the convenience of foreign investors or at the behest of foreigners, but to avoid waste and misdirection of funds to the detriment of the masses.
Keynote speech: corruption
The transformation of the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries offered enormous opportunities. This involves a different view of "corruption" and the extent to which it can be acceptable.
East Asia
Moreover, as Dr. Chen argues in Chapter 2, there exists a conceptual vacuum at the core of the proclaimed system of the “socialist market economy.” The final chapter in this part of the book focuses on the control of corruption in late colonial Hong Kong.
1 Developmentalism, corruption, and marketization of public
Despite the LDP losing its majority (mainly due to defections), opposition parties including the JSP, JRP, CGP, Japan New Party (JNP) and another LDP defector group, the Harbingers (Sakigake), agreed. to form a coalition government on the platform of electoral reform. Politicians relied on American pressure to promote a domestic reform agenda on the "fringes" of the 1955 coalition.
2 The reform discourse and China’s war on corruption
However, few have discussed the impact of the reform discourse in shaping this reality of law enforcement in China. Instead, they reflect the problems inherent in China's theoretical premise for its "socialist market economy."
3 Public attitudes to corruption in Taiwan
On the one hand, someone may be familiar with the government official in charge of that company. Similar to the distribution of people's attitudes toward cultural practices, more than a third of Taiwanese had engaged in lobbying when doing business with the government. The trend in people's attitudes toward the need for banquets when people do business with the government is similar to that of lobbying.
Regarding the question of people's attitudes towards gifts/bribes when doing business with the government, Taiwanese were less likely to believe that gifts/bribes would facilitate the process of doing business. In terms of gender, as shown in Table 3.1, there is only a clear gender difference in the 1999 survey, with male respondents more likely to agree with the statement that negative cultural practices will strengthen their business with the government. On the one hand, respondents with a high level of education are more likely to agree with the statement that negative cultural practices will be conducive to personal enterprise.
The attitude towards respondents is asked the degree of agreement or disagreement lobbying with the following statement: 'In our. The attitude towards respondents is asked the degree of agreement or disagreement at the banquet with the following statement: 'In our.
4 Corruption in the Korean public and private sectors
In both dimensions, corruption occurs at all levels of government and the private sector and can range from 'high-level corruption' (affecting national/international policies) to more low-level variants. According to the Office of the Prime Minister of South Korea, there are three categorical causes of corruption in Korea: (1) organizational and administrative causes; (2) social and cultural causes; and (3) psychological and attitudinal causes (see Box 4.1). Third, the adoption of the Nixon Doctrine during the Vietnam War increased fear and uncertainty throughout South Korea.
His conviction coincided with the start of a special investigation into alleged cash bribes to North Korea: corruption in the public and private sectors. 87. In both the public and private sectors, the character of the leader remains critical to upholding integrity. He believed that the main cause of the financial crisis was due to the overall corruption in Korean society.
In the past, the imposition of punitive measures served only as a temporary deterrent and not as a means of eradicating corruption in the public and private sectors. 25 Kang Chul-Kyu, Speech at American University, "Korea's Anti-Corruption Efforts and the Role of KICAC", 3 May 2002.
5 The ‘misery’ of implementation
I draw on recent advances in the policy implementation literature to construct a framework for analyzing the implementation of the grassroots democracy decision. According to the implementation guidelines of the decree, the people (nhan dan) must be informed of all laws, policies, plans and decisions of every level of government, including all local budget allocations (Section 2). The second mechanism is through increased participation of 'the people' in decision-making and the establishment of various procedural safeguards (Section 3).
This would appear to be the critical question upon which the viability of the decree as an anti-corruption strategy depends. There has been no attempt in the pages of Tap Chi Cong San - the Party's main organ for serious analysis of public administration reforms - to outline a realistic implementation strategy to enforce the minimum standards. As in many anti-corruption programs, the implementers themselves who are perceived as the source of the problem (we recall the Party's 'bad apple' theory of local corruption) are the most critical to the success of the implementation - they.
His "political logic"—the theory that links program outcomes to the root causes of the problem being addressed—is flawed and focuses attention on the commune level, when in fact corruption is undoubtedly endemic throughout Vietnam 116 Scott Fritzen. But there is also potential for policy learning – the ability to address some of the flaws in the design of the ordinance – especially if donors become actively involved in helping the government pilot anti-corruption approaches.
6 Corruption control in Hong Kong
Over the past ten years, Hong Kong has become one of the world's leading governments in terms of official integrity. When the British captured Hong Kong in the 1840s, it served mainly commercial purposes. In pre-World War II Hong Kong, it was an unwritten rule that cadet officers remained socially separate from the local community.
Separation of powers between the judiciary, the executive and the civil service was established in Hong Kong by restoring the autonomy of the civil service. This is another unusual strategy used by the advisory rule of law in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong government consulted most of the advanced legislation by the 1970s, including Singapore, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Malaysia and Zambia.
See Norman Miners, The Government and Politics in Hong Kong, 5th edn, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1998, p. Raymond Wacks, Police Forces in Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, 1993, p.
Southeast Asia
But even if it is able to dominate a small and compact state, it is clearly worried about continuity and it is hard to see that its system can be sustained in the long term. Corruption permeates the fabric of society and it is difficult to know how and where to begin to deal with it. That question is raised even more acutely in the case of Burma, though for different reasons.
However, although it seems so deeply rooted, there may be no need for despair, suggests Peter Perry in Chapter 9, drawing on the Eastern European experience. If a new regime is installed, it will have to find ways to deal with corruption in the most normal sense. Affirmative action has brought advantages, especially for the Malays, but, if its time has passed, it is difficult to reverse course.
Much of it, however, represented middle-class Bangkok discontent with the way democracy had worked in the provinces. Indeed, some argue that the current Prime Minister, narrowly acquitted of corruption charges, rules in the authoritarian fashion of the old militarists, as Nualnoi Treerat points out in Chapter 12.
7 Corruption: the peculiarities of Singapore
Viewed in a narrow sense, they can certainly be seen as an indication of the absence of a particular form of corruption in Singapore - the parasitic or predatory variety, which disgusts all foreign investors. However, it is no less a binding condition in the case of the other transfers mentioned. Based on the foregoing, this certainly appears to be the case.
The potential of these efforts to achieve concrete results for the benefit of the client should not be underestimated. At the very least, some form of relatively guaranteed employment can be derived by simply complying with the client's wishes. Considering the pervasive influence of the PAP in the public and private sectors, however, it can even be seen as suicidal.
But it is also peculiar because of the unique form corruption takes in the country itself. Huxley, 'The Political Role of the Singapore Armed Forces' Officer Corps: Towards a Military-Administrative State?', Working Paper No.
8 Profiting from disasters
Corruption and danger are not different aspects of life in the Philippines: the nature of one and the frequency of the other are closely linked. Certainly, the conditions that favor crime have been characteristic of the state in the archipelago. The last three decades of the twentieth century were decades of dramatic change and political unrest in the Philippines.
At no time was this vulnerability more evident in the Philippines than during the early 1990s. Furthermore, as the opportunities for corruption increase in parallel with the increase in the number of such events, the two may even The Philippines: profit from disasters 181. Rantucci,Geological Disasters in the Philippines: The July 1990 Earthquake and the June 1991 Eruption of Mount Pinatubo, Rome: Dipartimento per l'Informazione e l'Editoria, 1994, p.
Bankoff, Crime, Society and the State in the Nineteenth Century Philippines, Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1996, pp. McCoy, 'An Anarchy of Families: The Historiography of State and Family in the Philippines', në A.
