Corruption tolerance and its influencing factors—the case of China’s civil servants

Xiajuan Guo and Wenyan Tu

Journal of Chinese Governance, 2017, vol. 2, issue 3, 307-328

Abstract: What is the attitude of the Chinese public towards corruption? What are the factors influencing people’s attitude towards corruption? Through large sample surveys of Chinese civil servants, this research found that corruption tolerance of civil servants is low, but the enthusiasm of participation in anti-corruption campaigns is not correspondingly high. Male respondents with longer working experience or with low monthly income appear to have higher corruption tolerance. Awareness of corruption and confidence in government’s anti-corruption efforts also affect attitudes towards corruption. Less understanding about corruption results in higher corruption tolerance and lower enthusiasm to participate in fighting against corruption. Higher confidence in the government’s anti-corruption strategy leads to lower corruption tolerance and stronger willingness to participate in combating corruption. This suggests that a successful campaign of anti-corruption must involve enhancing understanding of corruption and building confidence in the party-state’s strategy on anti-corruption.

Date: 2017
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/23812346.2017.1342897 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:rgovxx:v:2:y:2017:i:3:p:307-328

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/rgov20

DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2017.1342897

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Chinese Governance is currently edited by Sujian Guo

More articles in Journal of Chinese Governance from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().