The Research Of Rent-seeking Corruption And Solutions Among The Grassroots Zhann/Suo

Along with the successful convening of18thnational party congress,anti-corruption works have been placed in a more prominent level, whichopens a new era of anti-corruption. Although anti-corruptionachievements are remarkable, however, the current overall anti-corruptionsituation is not optimistic, corruption situation is still serious, for example,many problems have not been relieved; some special fields are under thecorruption–prone atmosphere; corruption happens occasionally in mostfields. Rent-seeking theory is one of the important theories for corruptionstudy. Rent-seeking gains unproductive profit rather than creates moresocial resources. The causes of rent-seeking corruption rising are publicauthorities’ over intervention and mismanagement for market economy.In order to reap greater profits, interest bodies take numerous measures toaccept the power center and drive it to serve for them, so as to achievedevious aims. Rent-seeking activities certainly result to unfair profit distribution, rent-seeker gains profits, while others loss, this is exactly the‘cake cutting’unproductive behavior.The grassroots Zhann/Suo is the subordinate unit of governmentdepartments, undertaking partial public powers and performing importantcorresponding functions. They function not only as the governmentauthority extension, but also as the executor of public policies. Thegrassroots Zhann/Suo specifically and directly intervene and manageeconomic activities of certain areas to gain rent-seeking space. Comparedwith government departments, the grassroots organizations are in thelowest level with limited power, just because of this, supervision andmanagement upon on them are few, combined with protection of certaingovernment departments, rent-seeking corruption has sufficient space togerminate and grow up. In addition, due to personnel promotions andcertificates, leaders of grassroots organizations have the psychologicalcompensation intention. The collaboration of subjective factors andobjective factors connive rent-seeking corruption to happen from time totime, which adversely affects the government’s image, as well as do harmto enterprise’s production and masses’ life. This text takes a district ofShanghai as example, in where, several corruption cases amonggrassroots organizations rising in recent years have causes high attentionfrom district committee and government. Some cases are very typical,similar cases were also investigated in other districts, so this proved that the rent-seeking corruption has certain universality among grassrootsorganizations, and it also has considerable research values. This textcomprehensively analyses deep-rooted causes of corruption amonggrassroots organizations, such as rent-seeking space, rent-seekingconditions, etc., and proposes corresponding solutions with operationpossibility under present situations, hoping that it can contribute tounderstand and solve this kind of corruption.