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Chapter 2 - Unbundling Corruption across Countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2020

Yuen Yuen Ang
Yuen Yuen Ang
Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Chapter 2 critiques conventional bundled measures of corruption and presents an alternative – the Unbundled Corruption Index (UCI). This is an original expert survey that measures the prevalence of the four categories of corruption in my framework: petty theft, grand theft, speed money, access money. It provides systematic evidence that China’s corruption is indeed distinct from other typically predatory states.

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Unbundled Corruption Index (UCI)Unbundled (vs. bundled) corruption indexStylized vignettesInstitutional corruption (describes United States)Backward or crude version of access money (describes China)Systematic qualitative comparisonsMultiple types of corruption in varying degrees (rather than one type per country)Structure or quality of corruption
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China's Gilded Age
The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption
 , pp. 23 - 51
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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