An estological approach to understanding anti-corruption strategies in Northeast Asian countries

The publication reviews and develops scientific approaches to shaping the classification of anti-corruption strategies. Empirical materials from the legal systems of the countries of Northeast Asia are used, from state and legal construction practices in countries such as the People's Republic of China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Republic of Korea, Mongolia and Japan. In parallel, the role of documents that directly or indirectly determine approaches to understanding anti-corruption strategies is being studied. In the context of understanding the state-legal practices of combating corruption in the countries of Northeast Asia, the authors are trying to highlight the main semantic meanings of anti-corruption strategies. With regard to the meanings highlighted, the authors are trying to develop criteria by which it is possible to form postulates about the similarity or differences in approaches to understanding the anti-corruption strategies of the People's Republic of China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Republic of Korea, Mongolia and Japan. In the epistemology of practices and strategies for combating corruption in the countries of Northeast Asia, the axiological method has been chosen as the key instrument of scientific knowledge. Empirical material passed through the critical processing of authentic documents (sources of law, acts of interpretation of law, acts of realization of law) affecting the understanding of anti-corruption strategies, a selective approach was used to search for connections of a systemic or structural nature. Legitimized signs of interests were revealed among the ruling political elites of the People's Republic of China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Republic of Korea, Mongolia and Japan, as well as signs of the legitimacy of the possibilities possessed by the legal carriers of political and public power. Subjects of political interests in each of the countries of Northeast Asia use the possibilities of appropriate legal regulation mechanisms to give them signs of commonality inherent in the signs of positive law. The public assessment of the activities of the state power mechanisms of the People's Republic of China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Republic of Korea, Mongolia and Japan suggests that the modern legal policy against corruption has signs of legitimacy. In the states of North-East Asia under consideration, legal anti-corruption policies are effective enough to ensure both the interests of legal entities and the existence, functioning and modernization of the mechanism of legal regulation and the mechanism of state power of each country.