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Self-interest and ideology : bureaucratic corruption in Vietnam

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journal contribution
posted on 2024-06-16, 13:28 authored by J Gillespie
Remedies for corruption in socialist-transforming East Asia (China and Vietnam) primarily apply ‘public choice’ theory, invoking Weberian imagery of socially detached bureaucratic decision-making. However, as the episodes of corruption accumulate, it is becoming clear that existing legalistic conceptions of corruption must give way to analytical methods that take into account broader social and institutional perspectives. This article evaluates public choice theory by examining ideological explanations for bureaucratic corruption in Vietnam.

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Journal

Australian journal of Asian law

Volume

3

Pagination

1-36

Location

Sydney, N.S.W.

ISSN

1443-0738

eISSN

1839-4191

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal, C Journal article

Copyright notice

2001, Federation Press

Issue

1

Publisher

Federation Press

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