Relationale Korruption in der VR China. Institutionelle Grundlagen und ihre (Dys)Funktionalität für wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und Wachstum

The Chinese economy has undergone three decades of rapid economic growth, while at the same time experiencing a dramatic increase in the incidence and intensity of corruption. It is argued that these developments have been closely related and follow a fundamental logic of institutional arbitrage thriving in the context of a hybrid economy located somewhere between plan and market. Analysing various manifestations of corruption, it is shown that under certain background conditions corruption can be instrumental to economic development and drive a market-oriented transformation process. However, with the formal institutional framework crossing a threshold line of market coordination capacity, the potential of corruption to bridge institutional deficiencies in the formal system erodes and corrupt activities become increasingly ‘dys-functional’, impeding economic development and growth. In the course of the discussion Chinese guanxi networks are shown to provide a highly effective ordering mechanism for corrupt transactions, thereby facilitating the proliferation of corruption in China.

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