从中国古代官吏的低薪看高薪养廉的制度瓶颈

从历代官员的俸禄状况看,古代官员的普遍低薪是导致的腐败原因之一,而集权制度本身导致的官僚队伍的膨胀则使其高薪成为不可能。同时,集权体制又为官僚腐败提供了寻租空间。加之反腐的主要动力是皇权,而皇权又是集权的根源,因而古代反腐实质上是不可能真正得到执行的。只有在现代条件下,通过“小政府、大社会”,还政于民,才能真正做到事省政清。

The System Bottleneck of Keeping Honest and Clean Officials in the Ancient Chinese Low Salary System

In ancient China, general low salaries were a cause for the corruption of ancient officials, while the growing size of adm inistrative staff as a result of the unitarianism system prohibited the possibility of high official sal- aries. Unitarianism gave room for corruption, so anti-corruption was not possible as the drive came mainly from the emperorship, which was the origin of unitarianism. Only under the modern cond ition can a clean and efficient government be established and the power be returned to the people in a " small-government- in-a- large-soci- ety" arrangement.