The Political Logics of Anticorruption Efforts in Asia

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Theorizing Anticorruption as a Political Project
Why Asia?
Anticorruption Efforts and Contested Regime Legitimacy
Anticorruption Driven by Private Interests
Anticorruption Driven by Party Loyalty
Anticorruption Driven by Political Institutionalization
Organization of the Volume
Notes
Bibliography
Part I Anticorruption Driven by Private Interests
Chapter 1 Anticorruption Campaigns, Regime Change, and the Proprietary Polity
History of Anticorruption Initiatives
Institutional Setting
The Case of Two Anticorruption Campaigns and Their Aftermath
The Politics of Anticorruption Campaigns
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 2 Fighting Corruption When Corruption Is Pervasive
Anticorruption Campaigning in the Suharto Era and Beyond
The Fall of Suharto and the Transition to Democracy
Exposing Scandals and Working with the KPK
Defending the KPK
Anticorruption Campaigns in the Regions
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Part II Anticorruption Driven by Party Loyalty
Chapter 3 (Anti-)Corruption and Partisan Bias in Taiwan’s Newspapers
Political Attitudes and the Media in Taiwan
The Perception of Corruption
The Media and Political Polarization
Method and Data
Case Selection
Assembling the Corpus
Unsupervised Machine Learning
Partisan Bias in the Taiwanese Media
The Discourse on Corruption and Anticorruption
Selection Bias
Findings
Statement Bias
Selection of Terms
Chen Administration
Ma Administration
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 4 Rust Removal: Why Vietnam’s Historical Anticorruption Efforts Failed to Deliver Results, and What That Implies for the Current Campaign
Corruption in Vietnam
Measures of Corruption from Vietnamese Surveys
Anticorruption Policies
The History of High-Profile Corruption Cases in Vietnam (1996–2016)
Tamexco (1996)
Nam Cam (2003)
PMU 18 (2006)
Vinashin and Vinalines (2011–2012)
Discussion of Anticorruption Efforts before 2017
A Shifting Approach in Vietnam’s 2017–2018 Anticorruption Drive
PetroVietnam (PVN), OceanBank, and PetroVietnam Construction Joint Stock Corporation (PVC) (2016–2017)
PetroVietnam and OceanBank
PVC
Discussion: Is the 2017–2018 Effort Different?
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Part III Anticorruption Driven by Political Institutionalization
Chapter 5 Anticorruption Politics in Thailand: From Regime Institutionalization to Sovereignty Wars
Interpreting Anticorruption Politics: Moralism?
Authoritarianism: Enabling Corruption and Anticorruption Politics
Un-Responsible Power
Universal Claims
Hierarchy of Linkages
Propensity to Coercion
The State of Ambivalence: From Institutionalization to Sovereignty Wars
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 6 Korea’s Anticorruption Struggles: Fighting against Networks
Characterization of Korea’s Corruption
Bureaucratic Corruption
Compensatory Corruption
Networked Corruption
History of Korea’s Anticorruption Efforts
Anticorruption Campaigns under Authoritarian Governments
Political versus Bureaucratic Corruption during Democratization
Toward a Comprehensive Anticorruption Law after Democratization
Improper Solicitation and Graft Act (Kim Young-ran Act)
Backdrop to and Timing of the Legislation
Concerns about Unconstitutionality
Post-Legislation Uncertainties
Conclusion: Toward a New Society
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 7 The Evolution of China’s Anticorruption Strategy
The Evolution of China’s Anticorruption Strategy
The Maoist Period
The Post-Mao Period
The Xi Jinping Era
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Conclusion The Comparative Study of Anticorruption Campaigns: Where Do We Go from Here?
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index