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Title:: The Cause of Corruption Network: Viewed from thePerspective of Social Capital

Keywords:: corruption network; social capital; power supervision; political ecology; social ecology

Abstract:: Corruption arises together with power. The prevention of corruption which is based on the supervision of power within the current structure of power is far from satisfying. The major cause for the difficulty in fighting corruption is that the participants and their action mode in corruption have developed from individuals and separate actions to collective agents and actions, forming a network of various forms of corruption. The intrinsic cause of the corruption network in Chinese context lies in the fact that the negative effect of social capital has not been under effective control. The formation and development of the corruption network is sure to inflict untold damage on Chinese political and social ecologies. The destruction of the corruption network has to rise above the limitations embedded in the traditional view on power. A feasible way to get rid of the corruption network and create good political and social ecologies in China is to examine the intrinsic mechanism for the corruption from the perspective of social capital and then to get the diverse effects of social capital under effective control.