Promise and Peril in Combating Corruption: Hong Kong's ICAC

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 547, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 118-130

  Skidmore, Max J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 0030485982     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716296547001010     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. For cooperative efforts against corruption between Hong Kong and China, see, for example, Bertrand de Speville, Annual Report on the Activities of the Independent Commission Against Corruption for 1993 (Hong Kong: Independent Commission Against Corruption [ICAC], 1994), p. 10.
2. Frank Welsh, A History of Hong Kong (London: HarperCollins, 1993), p. 489.
3. Stephen Davies with Elfed Roberts, Political Dictionary for Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Macmillan, 1990), p. 92.
4. See, for example, Adam Y. C. Lui, Corruption Under the Early Ch'ing, 1644-1661 (Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong, Centre of Asian Studies, 1979).
5. Davies with Roberts, Political Dictionary for Hong Kong, p. 92.
6. Peter N.S. Lee, “The Causes and Effects of Police Corruption: A Case of Political Modernization,” in Corruption and Its Control in Hong Kong, ed. Rance P. L. Lee (Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 1981), pp. 182-183.
7. See Davies with Roberts, Political Dictionary for Hong Kong, pp. 209-210.
8. Welsh, History of Hong Kong, p. 490.
9. Davies with Roberts, Political Dictionary for Hong Kong, p. 114.
10. David Clark, “A Community Relations Approach to Corruption: The Case of Hong Kong,” Corruption and Reform, 2: 244 (1987).
11. Davies with Roberts, Political Dictionary for Hong Kong, p. 171.
12. Welsh, History of Hong Kong, p. 491.
13. The ICAC: An Introduction to the Independent Commission Against Corruption, 3d ed. (Hong Kong: ICAC, 1989), p. 5.
14. See Anoop Gulab Gidwani, “The Impact and Accountability Implications of the Bill of Rights in Relation to the Independent Commission Against Corruption” (MPA diss., University of Hong Kong, 1994), 25.
15. Davies with Roberts, Political Dictionary for Hong Kong, p. 31. Godber's trial took place in Hong Kong in 1975, and he received a four-year prison sentence.
16. Interview with Rosaline Cheung, Regional Officer of the Community Relations Department of the ICAC, 13 June 1995. See also Davies with Roberts, Political Dictionary for Hong Kong, p. 209.
17. For statistics and information on organization, see the ICAC commissioner's Annual Report on the Activities of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (various years).
18. Clark, “Community Relations Approach,” p. 244. See “Responsibilities of the Commissioner,” Annual Report on the Activities of the Independent Commission Against Corruption for 1993, pp. 6-7.
19. David Clark, “Mobilizing Public Opinion Against Corruption: A Commentary,” Corruption and Reform, 4: 124-125 (1989).
20. Welsh, History of Hong Kong, p. 492.
21. See the relevant annual reports.
22. There were numerous press articles for several weeks. One that presents a good sense of the situation is Cliff Buddle and Mariana Wan, “Taxman's Right to See Patient Files Upheld: Ruling Angers Medical Bodies,” South China Morning Post, 13 Apr. 1995.
23. Davies with Roberts, Political Dictionary for Hong Kong, p. 405.
24. See Donald H. McMillen and Man Si-wai, eds., The Other Hong Kong Report, 1994 (Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 1994), p. xxii.
25. Tim Hamlett, “Comic Crusade Just Isn't Funny,” South China Morning Post, 5 Apr. 1995.
26. Sam Mok, “Obscene Power Stays,” Eastern Express, 21 June 1955.
27. Jeremiah K. H. Wong, “The ICAC and Its Anti-Corruption Measures,” in Corruption and Its Control in Hong Kong, ed. Lee, p. 51.
28. Gidwani, “Impact and Accountability,” pp. 29 and 76. The authorizations are in sec. 13 of the ICAC Ordinance, and secs. 13 and 14 of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance.
29. Gidwani, “Impact and Accountability,” p. 60.
30. ICAC, p. 7.
31. ICAC, p. 15.
32. Gidwani, “Impact and Accountability,” p. 49.
33. Sonny S. H. Lo, “Independent Commission Against Corruption,” in Other Hong Kong Report, ed. McMillen and Man, p. 27.
34. Cited in Gidwani, “Impact and Accountability,” p. 125.
35. Lo, “Independent Commission Against Corruption,” p. 28.
36. For details of the Tsui case, see Gidwani, “Impact and Accountability,” pp. 122-135.
37. Lo, “Independent Commission Against Corruption,” p. 43.
38. See The Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (Hong Kong: One Country Two Systems Economic Research Institute, 1992), esp. chap. 1.
39. See ICAC, p. 24.
40. For obvious reasons, such persons wish not to be identified in any way.
41. Lo, “Independent Commission Against Corruption,” p. 25.
42. Davies with Roberts, Political Dictionary for Hong Kong, p. 211.
43. Welsh, History of Hong Kong, p. 493.