https://www.chinacenter.net/2014/china-currents/13-2/xi-jinpings-tiger-hunt-and-the-politics-of-corruption/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=xi-jinpings-tiger-hunt-and-the-politics-of-corruption A Center for Collaborative Research and Education on Greater China Wed, 19 Apr 2023 14:57:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.chinacenter.net/2014/china-currents/13-2/xi-jinpings-tiger-hunt-and-the-politics-of-corruption/#comment-100 Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:36:39 +0000 https://www.chinacenter.net/?p=4008#comment-100 […] Measuring the intensity of an anti-corruption campaign is, admittedly, a tricky business given that we cannot even roughly estimate the true extent of corruption. Instead, we can at best guess at the extent by asking experts for their impressions of how bad things are or tracking changes in the number of officials who suddenly stop being corrupt because they get caught. Indices such as the popular Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) published by Transparency International would have us believe that rather than getting worse, corruption in China has actually been on the decline for at least a decade, with its score falling from 7.6 (out of a maximum of 10, where 10 is the most corrupt and 1 the least corrupt) in 1995 to 6.0 in 2013, which would put China just below the 75th percentile and hence not among the worst of the worse.1 […]

]]> https://www.chinacenter.net/2014/china-currents/13-2/xi-jinpings-tiger-hunt-and-the-politics-of-corruption/#comment-94 Mon, 20 Oct 2014 02:27:29 +0000 https://www.chinacenter.net/?p=4008#comment-94 […] 3.Xi Jinping’s Tiger Hunt and the Politics of Corruption […]

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