Anticorruption Campaigns and the Intensification of Corruption in China

Despite repeated crackdowns, over the past two decades corruption in China has become steadily more ‘intense’ as the amounts of corrupt monies and the number of senior cadres implicated in corruption have increased dramatically, leading many to view China's ‘war on corruption’ as half-hearted and ineffectual. In this article, I analyze the efficacy of China's campaign-style anticorruption strategy using a combination of formal modeling and empirical data. The analysis suggests that while this sort of strategy may succeed in keeping corruption ‘under control’, it is likely to do so by deterring low-level corruption, but not high-level, high stakes corruption, and may encourage inflation of the size of bribes. The article thus concludes that campaign-style enforcement may have actually contributed to the ‘intensification’ of corruption.     

The Logic of Anticorruption Enforcement Campaigns in Contemporary China

Corruption is endemic and pervasive in contemporary China, yet serious attempts at anticorruption enforcement have been periodic in nature. What explains the timing of anticorruption campaigns? Available data, from 1981 to 1997, suggests a plausible correlation between changes in macroeconomic policy and the intensification of anticorruption enforcement. Four major anticorruption campaigns—in 1982, 1986, 1989 and 1993—coincided with the end of an inflationary peak and the beginning of a macroeconomic austerity period. This article establishes a causal link between anticorruption campaigns and economic austerity rounds, proposing that the aforementioned anticorruption campaigns have been used primarily to combat economic overheating and not corruption itself. That is, during the era of reform, anticorruption enforcement campaigns have functioned as a viable mechanism for reducing over-investment and in so doing, decreasing inflation.     

Public Support for Democracy in China

It is clear that public support for democracy is high in China. Public opinion surveys show that more than 90% of Chinese citizens believe that having a democracy is good. But the majority is not yet ready for a major effort towards democratization because they still see economic growth and social stability as more important than freedom of speech, political participation, and other democratic rights. However, more and more people are growing up with the belief that political rights and freedom supersede economic wellbeing or other materialist goals. In 15–20 years, Chinese society will be dominated by people with such beliefs. We can be cautiously optimistic about the prospects for democratic change in China.     

当前我国腐败与反腐败的六个发展趋势

本文对当前我国腐败和反腐败的发展趋势进行了分析,将其归纳为六个方面,即从贪污挪用到行贿受贿,再到利益冲突;从公共部门到私人部门,再到社会组织;从个人腐败、单位腐败到集体腐败;从影响政策执行到影响政策制定;从反黑色腐败到反灰色腐败;从惩治需求方到惩治供给方。本文的发现对于更好把握腐败发展的规律,并制定有针对性的政策具有重要的启发意义。     

透明国际建构国家廉政体系主张及其对中国反腐败的意义

透明国际组织提出的国家廉政体系由系列制度支柱组成,每一支柱都有核心规则予以支撑。中国惩治和预防腐败体系明显受到国家廉政体系的影响。惩防腐败体系的提出标志着中国反腐败更加注重系统性的制度构建。借鉴廉政体系的合理因素,中国惩防腐败体系亟需强化人民代表大会对财政预算的监督作用,强化审计机关的独特作用,强化媒体监督的有效性,发挥民营经济部门和公民社会在反腐败中的作用。     

行政伦理视角下我国反腐败问题分析

进入新世纪以来,我国行政腐败现象频繁发生,而且发生的领域越来越广,层级越来越高,给国家和社会造成了巨大损失,在当前形势下,积极探索反腐败的对策十分必要。文章分析了行政伦理在反腐败中发挥的作用,研究了行政伦理视角下我国反腐败的现状和存在的问题,并提出了反腐败的新途径。     

Revamping Rural China

正National rural vitalization strategy invigorates villages across the nation Despite being only 10 minutes by road from the nearest city now, Gaohuai Village, located in Deyang in Sichuan Province in southwest China, was once a poor and isolated backwater. Now it has been reborn into a place for urbanites to get together and relax at weekends. The cafés in the village are a symbol of     

Building Rural China

The Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council have issued fiveNo.1 documentssince 2004,which constitute the framework of China's new policies toward agriculture, farmers and countryside development at the new stage of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects.Chen Xiwen,Deputy Director of the Office of Central Financial Work Leading Group and Director of the Office of Central Rural Work Leading Group,shares his views with Beijing Review reporter Yu Shujun on the country's agriculture,farmers and countryside development, and changes in China's rural areas due to the implementation of the reform and opening-up policy over the past 30 years.     

中国农村最低生活保障标准的测算

建立农村最低生活保障制度的难题在于：如何确定农村最低生活保障线。该文在参考国外学者测算最低生活保障标准的基础上,通过模型的构建与分析,探寻符合我国农村实际情况的测算最低生活保障线标准的方法,并加以证实。     

浙江农村改革与中国农村发展

一、浙江农村改革的基本经验 改革开放以来,浙江农村经济总量和农民收入增加幅度在全国一直名列前茅。1997年以来,全国农民收入增幅连续4年下降,浙江却持续4年上升,浙江农民人均收入水平已跃居全国各省区     

Current Rural Medical Service in China

In contrast to the great changes that have taken place in the Chinese economy, China is confronting with a rural health crisis. Statistics shows that about 40-60% of the people in rural areas fail to see a doctor when they get sick simply because they cannot afford it and 70% of the people impoverished due to diseases. In the western part of the country, 60-80% of the patient farmers have to die at home. Part of the Chinese farmers has     

加入世贸组织与中国的反腐败

入世后 ,在企业改制、企业破产、政府采购、不正当竞争等过程可能引发新的腐败。入世后的腐败的特征包括腐败手段的智能化、方式的多样化、国企干部腐败比例的扩大化、腐败范围的广域化和境外化、腐败主体的国际化等方面。最大限度地遏制腐败 ,需要强化权力的监督 ,理顺政府的审批机制 ,适度分权 ,适度修改现行刑法 ,强化对现行刑法相关法条的适用监督 ,适时修改现行相关行政法 ,加快权力的法治化进程 ,等等     

博弈论在反腐败机制中的应用研究

反腐败是我们党和国家目前面临的迫在眉睫的任务。本文通过建立潜在腐败群体之间的博弈以及反贪博弈的复制动态方程,并对其动态方程作了分析和讨论,得出了潜在腐败群体和反贪机关博弈的进化稳定策略,从而揭示了反腐败的机理,目的是为我国目前制定反腐败政策提供一些参考和建议。     

中国农村发展与农村土地制度改革

农村土地制度改革是城镇化与农业现代化发展的客观要求。该文通过深入分析中国城镇化过程中的城乡土地利用格局,阐述了古今中外农村土地制度设计的基本原则,提出应有限度地放开农村土地市场,以满足利用市场机制有效配置土地资源的要求,但必须以保障农地生产功能为前提,严格防止土地过度资本化可能带来的弊端。     

绘制未来中国农村发展的新蓝图——从“乡村振兴战略”视角

<正>乡村振兴战略是一个需要不断努力和完善的巨大工程,关系到全面建成小康社会的成功,也关系到我们每个人的生活和健康。中共十九大报告提出了乡村振兴战略,中共中央农村工作会议研究实施乡村振兴战略的重要政策,这决定了未来30多年中国农村发展的宏伟蓝图。农业农村农民问题是关系国计民生的根本性问题,也是国家现代化进程中的短板所在。没有农业农村的现代化,就没有国家的现代化。乡村振兴决定着中国全面小康社会的成色和社会主义现代化的质量。     

构建和谐的中国农村社会

当代中国农村的变迁过程就是“类单位制”的建立与解体过程,当代中国农村的社会秩序正面临着重建的问题。在重建的过程中,由于缺乏民主理念和民主意识,村民自治制度的实施举步维艰。开展村落社区建设的案例,为我们提供了解决问题的一个新的途径,优秀的传统文化在构建和谐农村社会的进程中,有其积极的现实意义。     

中国农村医疗救助政策研究

该文基于中国农村医疗救助政策的实施状况描述，分析了医疗救助政策上存在的问题与挑战。同时，通过对东亚国家医疗救助社会政策的比较与借鉴，提出在目前新型农村合作医疗制度逐步推进的基础上，中国应构建一个政府主导下，以“健康卡”为媒介的，医方和社会工作者共同提供医疗救助服务的发展型农村医疗救助制度。     

土地股份合作制是中国农村土地产权制度改革的选择

当前农村土地承包制度的最大缺陷在于没有切实保护好农民的利益,针对这一缺陷,一个时期以来出现了两个有代表性的观点一是主张农村土地私有化,二是提出变农村土地集体所有为国家所有。但这两方面观点都与中国的现实国情相脱离的,是不可取的。因此,以农户拥有产权为基础的土地股份合作制成为中国面临的重大选择。     

关爱女孩工程对农村养老方式的影响

计划生育工作的难点在农村,难的主要原因之一,是农村养老问题比城市更为突出.农村养老方式与农村女孩在养老中的地位有着直接的联系.国家计生委在陕西咸阳召开的计划生育综合改革宣传教育研讨会上,安徽省巢湖市等一些地方试行的关爱女孩工程,引起了与会者的高度关注.关注的焦点,是这项工程的实施,对农村现行养老方式起着进步和转变的作用.     

乡村振兴视野下农村留守妇女的新特点与突出问题

党的十九大报告将乡村振兴提到了战略高度,在重视城乡融合的基础上推行农业农村优先发展。除吸引优秀人才返乡创业、返乡就业外,中国的乡村振兴战略还必须调动农村现有劳动力的积极性和创造性。但中国长期以来的工业化和城市化进程已经使流动人口与留守人口现象发生了很大的变化。流动人口的急剧增长和留守人口相对减少相辅相成。农村留守妇女在总体数量上已经大大减少,留守地也从农村转向乡镇乃至县城。概言之,现阶段的农村留守妇女是经过长期市场和政策筛选后的剩余群体,她们面临着更为沉重的照料负担、更为严峻的婚姻危机和更难启齿的疾病困扰。农村留守妇女的这些新特点和突出问题需要得到政府更有的放矢的关注和干预,使她们能够更好地参与到乡村振兴中来。