What Makes Anticorruption Punishment Popular? Individual-level Evidence from China

How does punishment of corruption help to build public support in authoritarian regimes? We outline two primary mechanisms. Instrumentally, the ability to pursue anticorruption initiatives to the end signals government capacity. Deontologically, anticorruption punishment signals moral commitments. T...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tsai, Lily L., Trinh, Minh D, Liu, Shiyao
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Chicago Press 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/138156.2