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Assessment of and Outlook on China's Corruption and Anticorruption Campaigns: Stagnation in the Authoritarian Trap

@inproceedings{Li2017AssessmentOA,
  title={Assessment of and Outlook on China's Corruption and Anticorruption Campaigns: Stagnation in the Authoritarian Trap},
  author={Shaomin Li},
  year={2017}
}

• Shaomin Li
• Published 2017
• Political Science

Since the beginning of China’s economic reform in the late 1970s, corruption has been progressing alongside of economic growth. In 2012, when Xi Jinping took power, he waged the largest and longest anticorruption campaign known in the history of the Chinese Communist Party. This study provides an assessment on his campaign and projects an outlook on the future of corruption and anticorruption in China. The author argues that China will enter into an “authoritarian trap,” in which the… Expand