China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy by Minxin Pei

Author:Minxin Pei
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Political Ideologies, China - Economic policy - 1976-2000, Economics, China - Politics and government - 1976-2002, Communism & Socialism, Democracy, General, China - Economic policy - 2000, China, Asia, Political Science, Economic Policy, Public Policy, Honeybee, Democracy - China, History
ISBN: 9780674021952
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2006-03-14T10:00:00+00:00

Crime and Punishment

The breakdown of the monitoring system is accompanied by an increasingly dysfunctional system of punishing corrupt officials—despite the frequent use of the death penalty against high-profile offenders. The combination of ineffective monitoring and punishment unavoidably creates an institutional environment conducive to decentralized predation. In China’s case, official data on the punishment of corrupt officials indicate that the reported increase in official corruption may be attributed to the relative leniency with which corrupt officials are treated by Chinese anticorruption authorities. The low rate of criminal investigations targeting individuals accused of corrupt activities and the negligible probability of criminal penalties make corruption a low-risk and high-return activity that is extremely attractive to officials. More important, this evidence also points to collusion and mutual protection among corrupt agents.

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