Bangladesh Towards a better performing and more ethical civil service in Bangladesh March 22, 2019 0 Written by Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling, Taiabur Rahman, Kazi Maruful Islam, Christian Schuster and Kim Sass Mikkelsen. Effective governance is essential for economic development and hence it…
Law and Justice After the 19th: Anti-Corruption, Clean Government and the Rule of Law November 27, 2017 0 Written by Xiaoming Zhong and Jiangnan Zhu. The 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) demonstrated President Xi Jinping’s political achievements and firm leadership…
China China’s new anti-corruption body raises worrying questions about the rule of law May 18, 2017 1 Written by Zhiqiong June Wang. Corruption is thought to cost China US$86 billion each year. Widespread corruption at all levels of Chinese society also worsens…
China Targeting Northeastern Tigers: The Anti-Corruption Campaign in Liaoning February 23, 2017 2 Written by Adam Cathcart In assessing the depth and the impact of Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign, few provinces are as interesting as Liaoning (遼寧). The…
Government Fiscal Starvation: The Unintended Consequences of Xi Jinping’s Anti-Corruption Campaign February 23, 2017 1 Written by Hiroki Takeuchi. President Xi Jinping’s fierce anti-corruption campaign has been one of his signature reform policies since his inauguration as General Secretary of…
China International Sporting Mega-Events in China since the 1980s November 23, 2016 0 Written by Marcus P. Chu. Any international sporting mega-event refers to a games in which numbers of athletes from at least two countries participate. Given that…
China Open Government in China: Bound to Improve, Within Bounds. November 11, 2016 0 Written by Jessica Batke,* Julia Breuer, and Matthias Stepan. From remarks by the Premier to new guidelines for open government, we’ve been hearing a lot…
China Dynamic authoritarian resilience October 28, 2016 0 Written by Steve Hess. Beginning with the release of David Shambaugh’s March 2015 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, which discussed the “coming Chinese crack-up,”…
China Has Xi Jinping changed China? October 18, 2016 7 Written by Angela Stanzel. Almost as soon as Xi Jinping assumed office as president in March 2013, a few months after becoming leader of the…
China Is Chairman Xi taking China back to the Cultural Revolution? April 4, 2016 0 Written by Jackie Sheehan. Before considering today’s parallels with the Cultural Revolution, first let’s deal with the characterization of China’s current leader as Xi Zedong, or…