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