Leadership and culture in combating corruption: a comparative analysis

IF 1.2 4区 法学 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE Public Administration and Policy-An Asia-Pacific Journal Pub Date : 2022-07-15 DOI:10.1108/pap-05-2022-0043
Jon T. S. Quah
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PurposeThis paper analyses the importance of leadership and culture in combating corruption in Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan.Design/methodology/approachThis paper is based on the comparative analysis of the effectiveness of the anti-corruption measures in the studies of six selected countries in this special issue of Public Administration and Policy. The contributors in this special issue were invited because of their publications on combating corruption in the six countries.FindingsThe critical variable ensuring the effectiveness of combating corruption is the strong political will of the leadership in changing the culture of corruption in the country by implementing a zero-tolerance policy toward corruption, as shown in Singapore and Hong Kong. In New Zealand’s case, leadership plays a less important role because of the population’s emphasis on equality and egalitarianism and its reliance on the Ombudsman and Serious Fraud Office to curb corruption. However, the corrupt leaderships of Tanaka Kakuei in Japan, Najib Rajak in Malaysia, and Chen Shui-bian in Taiwan, demonstrate clearly their insidious impact of consolidating their kleptocratic rule in these countries.Originality/valueAs the role of leadership and culture in combating corruption has not been given sufficient attention in the literature, this paper attempts to rectify this neglect by demonstrating that the political leaders in Singapore and Hong Kong, and to a lesser extent, New Zealand, have succeeded in minimising corruption while their counterparts in Japan, Taiwan and Malaysia, have failed to do so.
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反腐败的领导与文化:比较分析
本文分析了香港特别行政区、日本、马来西亚、新西兰、新加坡和台湾的领导和文化在反腐败中的重要性。设计/方法/途径本文的基础是对本期《公共行政与政策》特刊中选定的六个国家的研究中反腐败措施的有效性进行比较分析。本期特刊的撰稿人之所以受到邀请,是因为他们发表了关于六个国家反腐败的文章。调查结果确保打击腐败的有效性的关键变量是领导层通过实施对腐败的零容忍政策来改变国家腐败文化的强烈政治意愿,正如新加坡和香港所显示的那样。在新西兰的情况下,领导发挥了不太重要的作用,因为人们强调平等和平等主义,并依赖监察员和严重欺诈办公室来遏制腐败。然而,日本的田中角荣、马来西亚的纳吉布和台湾的陈水扁的腐败领导层清楚地表明,他们在这些国家巩固其盗贼统治的阴险影响。领导和文化在打击腐败中的作用在文献中没有得到足够的重视,本文试图纠正这种忽视,通过证明新加坡和香港的政治领导人,在较小程度上,新西兰,成功地减少了腐败,而他们在日本,台湾和马来西亚的同行却未能做到这一点。
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