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XI JINPING’S CHALLENGE: WHAT IS BEHIND CHINA’S ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN?

XI JINPING’S CHALLENGE: WHAT IS BEHIND CHINA’S ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN? The unprecedented campaign against corruption appears as an answer to the erosion of the state party legitimacy, following the extent of social polari- zation, much higher in detailed representative surveys than in the official statistics. As the new blueprint for reform defined by the 3rd Plenum of September 2013 implies a huge transfer of resources from the party-state and elites to households and small and medium enterprises, vested interests groups tend to defend their privi- leges. Based on the analysis of the sociologist Sun Liping (Tsinghua University) and on extensive data, from Chinese as well as international sources, this article demon- strates that the anti-corruption campaign aims to destabilize the wall of vested interest groups which, in the name of stability, defend the anti-redistribution status quo. In the same time, anti-corruption is used as an institutional battle horse to strengthen the authority of the new secretary general and president, and to eliminate his political rivals. The recentralization of justice is supposed to control local pro- tectionism and the foot-dragging of the local bureaucracy, which feels threatened. But this authoritarian and top-down policy tends to alienate wealthy Chinese and intellectuals, without succeeding to forge a real social coalition based on the redis- tribution of income, the condition for higher growth. JEL codes: D73; F5 Keywords: China; anti-corruption; politics; economy; Xi Jinping http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Self-Governance and Management Economics Addleton Academic Publishers

XI JINPING’S CHALLENGE: WHAT IS BEHIND CHINA’S ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN?

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Abstract

The unprecedented campaign against corruption appears as an answer to the erosion of the state party legitimacy, following the extent of social polari- zation, much higher in detailed representative surveys than in the official statistics. As the new blueprint for reform defined by the 3rd Plenum of September 2013 implies a huge transfer of resources from the party-state and elites to households and small and medium enterprises, vested interests groups tend to defend their privi- leges. Based on the analysis of the sociologist Sun Liping (Tsinghua University) and on extensive data, from Chinese as well as international sources, this article demon- strates that the anti-corruption campaign aims to destabilize the wall of vested interest groups which, in the name of stability, defend the anti-redistribution status quo. In the same time, anti-corruption is used as an institutional battle horse to strengthen the authority of the new secretary general and president, and to eliminate his political rivals. The recentralization of justice is supposed to control local pro- tectionism and the foot-dragging of the local bureaucracy, which feels threatened. But this authoritarian and top-down policy tends to alienate wealthy Chinese and intellectuals, without succeeding to forge a real social coalition based on the redis- tribution of income, the condition for higher growth. JEL codes: D73; F5 Keywords: China; anti-corruption; politics; economy; Xi Jinping

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Published: Jan 1, 2017

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