Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 May 2020
Chapter 3 examines howaccess money came to dominate China’s structure of corruption. Contrary to popular claims of “rising” corruption, I show that, since the 2000s, only bribery has exploded, both in frequency and in scale, while embezzlement, misappropriation of public funds, and bureaucratic extortion have declined. Two forces drove this evolution: the expansion of markets after 1993 and the central government’s rollout of capacity-building measures in 1998.
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