"Legal but illicit practices is a special dimension of corruption, they are widely distributed and impact Chinese society profoundly, but tend to be overlooked easily. This thesis has provided a clear concept of "legal but illicit practices" and described its mechanism on the basis of the summarizing and analyzing of the existing research, and the sociological theory of "relationship". The core issue of this thesis are defining "Legal but illicit practices" and describing the mechanism of it, and "legalizing" is the core of the mechanism. Declaration of conflicts of interests system and discretion are easily interfered by human factors in current China where the traditional "rule of man" still occupies an important position, and thus "relationship corruption" gets operating space and "legitimate" reason. Operation of "relationship" distorts the laws, regulations and specific policies by using or impacting system of declaration of conflicts of interests and discretion, in order to achieve the purpose of which private exchange of sensibilities and benefits between the client and the resource dominator can be done. Research to the concept and mechanism of "legal but illicit practices" is especially significant to the development of China's anti-corruption work in both theory and practice. KEY WORDS： LEGAL BUT ILLICIT PRACTICES, DEFINITION, MECHANISM

“不當的合法行為”是腐败的一種，它在中國社會廣泛分佈、影響深重卻容 易被忽視。本文明確了“不當的合法行為”的概念并在對現有研究進行系統整 理、歸納與分析的基礎上，結合關係社會學理論，說明了“不當的合法行為”的 機制。本文的核心問題有二，即定義和運作機制，其中“合法化”又是運作機制 的中心。在傳統“人治思想”仍佔據重要地位的中國，迴避制度和自由裁量權執 行的空間受到很多“人為因素”的影響，因而“關係腐敗”有了趁虚而入的操作 空間以及“合法”的理由，“關係”通過對迴避制度的利用和自由裁量的影響， 扭曲國家的法律法規以及其他處理具體事務的規章政策，以達到請托者和資源支 配者之間的交換私人情面和好處的目的。對“不當的合法行為”概念的明確和機 制分析對中國反腐敗工作理論和實踐的發展都有重要的意義。 關鍵字：不當的合法行為，概念，機制