corruption is considered a major threat to the legitimacy of the party norad according to the corruption perception index transparency international viet nam ranks out of countries behind mongolia malaysia philippines thailand and indonesia and scores on a scale from highly corrupt to very clean the government has been working to improve the countrys anticorruption legal framework since freedom house and the papi survey also shows that compared to citizens perceive improvements in the fight against in most provinces social network support is understood as the capacity of individuals to count on relatives or friends for help when in need family ties and traditional authority patterns are strongly embedded in social networks dalton et al