China's Internet Anti-corruption Mechanism

Anti-corruption is a worldwide problem. Online anti-corruption, which originated in Internet space as a new anti-corruption form, provided a meaningful path for breakthrough China's current anti-corruption predicament.This paper attempts to interpret online anti-corruption Mechanism from political communication perspective. The core idea of the paper is that significant and effective political communication make online anti-corruption Mechanism different from traditional anti-corruption mechanism. Correspondingly, the causes, operation, and tendency of online anti-corruption Mechanism have a close connection to political communication.The primary cause of the failure of traditional anti-corruption mechanism is obstructed communication between official anti-corruption actors and civil anti-corruption actors. And the features of the Internet, such as openness, swift and interactive, provided the technical foundation for direct and effective political communication. At last, the communication intend of both official anti-corruption actors and civil anti-corruption actors was the internal cause of online anti-corruption mechanism.There are two main communication mode in current online anti-corruption mechanism. Based on case analysis, the paper summarizes these two modes as "pressure-response" mode dominant by civilian power and "participation" mode dominant by official power, and respectively analyzes their advantages and limitations.At last, the paper points out that the future of China's online anti-corruption mechanism is institutionalized benign communication, which needs more encouragement and moderate supervision, more transparent and moderate protection, more rules and moderate flexible.