Why does Corruption Appear to be “Unavoidable”? -
Tacit Rationality and the Reinforcement of Informal Institutions in China
Ref. No : CLLL-BJ579LPosted by :ClaudyL/UMAC
Department :FSSPosted Date : 26/11/2019
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Department of Government and Public Administration, FSS
Why does Corruption Appear to be “Unavoidable”? -
Tacit Rationality and the Reinforcement of Informal Institutions in China
Speaker:
Ms. Ningjing GE
Doctoral Fellow
Institute of East Asian Studies
University of Duisburg-Essen
Date:28th November 2019 (Thursday)
Time:10:30-12:00
Venue:E21B-G002, Humanities and Social Sciences Building
Language:English
Speaker:
Ms. Ningjing GE, doctoral fellow of the Institute of East Asian Studies, University Duisburg-Essen. Before joined the DFG Research Training Group 1613 “Risk and East Asia” since May 2015, she gained Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration and Law at Tianjin University of Finance & Economics in 2010, and Master’s degree in Public Administration at University of Macau in 2013. Majored in sociology, the current focus of her research lies on corruption in China and critical discourse analysis.

Abstract:
This study aims at disentangling an empirical puzzle that confronts many places where corruption is pervasive and routinised: Why does corruption – especially those in transaction forms – appear to be “unavoidable”? Building upon my research on China case, I argue that when corruption becomes an expected action that goes beyond individual choice, “unavoidable” does not signify legally-identified corruption per se, but a series of informal institutions which do not exclude corruption. Therefore, the crux of understanding why people consciously break or bypass formal institutions and participate in corrupt practices is to explain why certain informal patterns of behaviour that follow a similar operative logic with corruption constantly get reinforced while formally-coded rules appear to be merely nominal. Ultimately, behind the empirical puzzle of “unavoidable” corruption lies the theoretical inquiry that what determines the effectiveness of an institution, which entails a frame that can link the analysis of individual decision-making process to the large social contextual structure.

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