| ID | 143773 |
| Title Proper | Limits of the arbitrariness in anticorruption by China’s local party discipline inspection committees |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Li, Fenfei ; Deng, Jinting |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Based on interviews in local commissions of China’s Party discipline inspection (CDIs), this article investigates the effectiveness, internal limits and selectiveness of CDIs in the anticorruption campaign. It uses a micro-level analysis to explore the role of law in affecting the CDIs’ anticorruption work and concludes that local CDIs remain heavily affected by the same-level local governments, but are effective in combating local corruption due to recent reforms that have strengthened higher-level CDIs’ control over lower-level CDIs. The current internal decision-making systems of the CDIs make their anticorruption work heavily dependent upon the central leadership. Their work is still not institutionalized and relies heavily on higher-level intervention. Nevertheless, law played a crucial role by providing the bottom lines to set the decision-making standards at different stages. Legal reforms should aim to further clarify and lift these baseline standards. |
| `In' analytical Note | Journal of Contemporary China Vol. 25, No.97; Jan 2016: p.75-90 |
| Journal Source | Journal of Contemporary China Vol: 25 No 97 |
| Key Words | Anticorruption ; Limits of the Arbitrariness ; China’s Local Party Discipline Inspection Committees ; CDIs ; Micro-Level Analysis |