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Influence Factors in the Effectiveness of National Defense Anti-Corruption Governance
Influence Factors in the Effectiveness of National Defense Anti-Corruption Governance

Author(s): Nathan Cheng-Hu Chow, I-Jan YEH
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Governance, Sociology, Methodology and research technology, Applied Sociology, Geopolitics, Corruption - Transparency - Anti-Corruption
Published by: Expert Projects Publishing
Keywords: national defense; anti-corruption governance; governance effectiveness; critical factor;

Summary/Abstract: Armed forces are currently in the environment with moral ambiguity and multiple cultures. In face of the chaos, corruption, and wasteful trend in current social value system, continuous conflict is bothering the cultivation and atmosphere of military character. Under the situation, officers and soldiers could easily fall into bad belief and become indifferent to surrounding affairs with apathy. Various military discipline events appear in domestic armed forces in past years; besides, the exaggeration and report of print media and electronic media, and even some officers and soldiers spilling, smearing, and slandering each other to defile others’ innocence destroy the image of armed forces. Military character presents close relations with integrity building action. Aiming at military personnel in Ministry of National Defense, total 420 copies of questionnaire are distributed, and 347 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 83%. The research results are summarized as below. Factors in the effectiveness of armed forces personnel’s anti-corruption governance contain micro aspects of lack of legal and disciplinary ideas and value deviation of armed forces personnel as well as macro aspect of complicated approval operation and rules resulting in lobbying interfering businesses. The effectiveness of armed forces personnel’s anti-corruption governance not being affirmed by the society is related to the engagement of supervisors at all levels in anti-corruption work, as armed forces personnel are restricted to the political environment and aging senior customs personnel that the director’s engagement in anti-corruption work is not manifested. Armed forces personnel involving in internal anti-corruption problems are minimized to largely reduce the effectiveness of anti-corruption governance. According to the results, suggestions are proposed, expecting to improve problems resulted from military discipline and to promote the armed forces’ image of integrity, being close to the people, and loving the people.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 73
  • Page Range: 262-275
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English
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