China and the narratives of corruption
On the publication of Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) Professor Dan Hough, course leader for the Corruption and Governance MA (online) at the University of Sussex and PhD student Yang Wu wrote for The Independent, on Xi Jinping’s leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and battle against corruption in China.
Professor Hough and Wu explore how after becoming general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2012, Xi Jinping vowed to tackle corruption. But, does China’s position in the latest CPI suggest not much has changed?
The Corruption and Governance MA (online) is taught by the internationally renowned academics from the Sussex Centre for the Study of Corruption. The only centre in Europe to take an interdisciplinary approach to the study of anti-corruption, students are now able to join this course online from anywhere in the world, fitting their studies around their career.