The challenge of controlling corruption at the grassroots

Andrew Wedeman

Chapter 27 in Handbook on Local Governance in China, 2023, pp 429-449 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has battled corruption almost from its inception and continues that fight today. The central leadership in Beijing has also long struggled to reach down through the party-states’ complex multi-level bureaucratic structure to detect and sanction malfeasance at the grassroots level. Under CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping, the central leadership has sought to strengthen its ability to fight corruption at all levels by centralizing the party’s disciplinary apparatus. In 2017, the leadership merged the party’s Discipline Inspection Commission, the state Ministry of Supervision, and the Anti-corruption Bureau of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate to form the National Supervisory Commission. Is greater centralization likely to increase the ability of the central leadership to attack corruption at the grassroots? Focusing on the organizational structure of the new supervisory system and drawing on data on grassroots corruption, this chapter argues that centralization is likely to only marginally increase the center’s to monitor and control corruption at the grassroots.

Keywords: Asian Studies; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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