关于以薪养廉有效性的探讨:基于中国的经验  

The Effect of Pay Raises on Corruption Prevention: Evidence from the Chinese Public Sector

作　　者：公婷[1] 吴木銮[2] 

机构地区：[1]香港城市大学公共与社会行政学系 [2]香港教育学院文理学院

出　　处：《经济社会体制比较》2012年第5期117-129,共13页Comparative Economic & Social Systems

摘　　要：腐败的原因和治理对策是学界和实践部门共同关注的议题。许多人认为,公务员报酬过低是腐败产生的重要原因之一。在新加坡和香港地区高薪养廉的启发下,许多国家包括中国在不同程度上尝试通过以薪养廉来提升政府治理的质量。公务员收入过低无法保证正常的家庭生活开支。过低的薪酬有可能损害公务员保持个人诚信的努力,引致腐败行为。公务员薪酬的提高,甚至高于社会的平均工资水平,在此背景下"以薪"是否可以"养廉"?这是重要的理论和实践问题。基于实证数据,文章认为,公务员薪酬和廉政建设有着复杂的关系,对它们的相关性存在着一些认识上的误区。过去十余年间,我国公务员薪酬水平上升较快,腐败的程度也有所加深。The cause of corruption and the strategy for combating corruption are important topics of interest to academics and practitioners. Many people view low salaries of civil servants as a contributing factor to corruption. Many countries including China, inspired by the experiences of corruption control of Singapore and Hong Kong, are promoting good civil service remuneration to ensure government integrity. Extremely low civil service remuneration makes it difficult for public workers to keep their heads above water. Low civil service pay may also discourage civil servants＇ effort to maintain personal integrity and result in so - called need - based corruption. However,if civil service pay is substantially increased to a level above the average salary in society,would it help reduce corruption？ This is an important theoretical and practical question. Drawing on longitudinal data from China, this article suggests that the relationship between civil service remuneration and corruption control is complex and there are misunderstandings concerning their correlation. The findings indicate that the civil service pay and corruption level have increased in parallel over the past 15 years. Some policy implications are drawn from this study.

关 键 词：公务员工资 廉政建设 以薪养廉 公共治理 

分 类 号：D06[政治法律—政治学]