The Political Logics of Anticorruption Efforts in Asia

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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