ABSTRACT

How does power-sharing in governments influence the control of corruption in Asia Pacific democracies? Studies find that voters can more easily hold elected officials accountable, providing them with incentives to control corruption, if levels of clarity of responsibility are sufficiently high. Most of these studies have focused on European countries, and have tended to measure power-sharing, which lowers clarity of responsibility, in terms of coalition governments. The wide variation in institutional arrangements across the democracies in the Asia Pacific region calls for a more nuanced evaluation of the conditions under which we should expect to find clarity of responsibility. Using original data on government characteristics in 19 Asia Pacific democracies from 1996 to 2019 and data on control of corruption from the World Bank, I find that higher levels of clarity of responsibility, captured by presidentialism and a higher share of decision-making power held by the head of government’s party, promote higher levels of corruption control.

摘要

政府的权力分享如何影响亚太民主国家的腐败控制？研究发现，如果责任的明确程度足够高，选民可以更容易地追究民选官员的责任，从而为他们提供控制腐败的动力。这些研究大多集中在欧洲国家，并倾向于衡量联合政府方面的权力分享，这降低了责任的清晰度。亚太地区民主国家的制度安排存在巨大差异，需要对我们应该期望在何种条件下明确责任进行更细致的评估。使用 1996 年至 2019 年亚太地区 19 个民主国家政府特征的原始数据和世界银行的腐败控制数据，