Current scholarship on marketization from below in North Korea emphasizes the increased
influence of private actors, and portrays this process as eroding state control. While these …

North Korea is widely seen as having among the most corrupt governments in the world.
However, the Kim family regime has not always been so accepting of government …

Why are politicians more likely to be prosecuted and convicted for corruption in some
contexts rather than in others? Pulling together disparate threads of the literature on what we …

The Xi Jinping Effect explores the relationship between the People's Republic of China's
current"" paramount leader""—arguably the most powerful figure since Mao Zedong (1893 …

What effect does power personalization have on authoritarian policy outcomes? While
existing literature expects personalist rulers to substitute private handouts or personal whims …

Studi mengenai perubahan sosial, ekonomi, dam politik kawasan Asia Timur telah
berkembang sangat luas. Baik peneliti internasional di Barat, maupun para akademisi di …

Summary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) celebrated its one-hundredth birthday in
2021. Its durability poses a twofold question: How has the party survived thus far? And is its …

How can anti-corruption efforts influence political trust in government? We investigate this
question through the lens of China's recent anti-corruption campaign, launched in 2013 …

Corruption is widely recognized as one of the key factors undermining the credibility and
efficiency of political institutions. In this chapter, we discuss the corruption of politics and …

The acceptance of Freedom of Information (FOI) as a fundamental mechanism for enhancing
accountability and transparency in the public sector is widely recognized. Numerous …