Corruption is considered a major threat to the legitimacy of the Party (NORAD, 2011). According to the Corruption Perception Index (Transparency International, 2013), Viet Nam ranks 116 out of 177 countries, behind Mongolia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia, and scores 31 on a scale from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). The government has been working to improve the country's anti-corruption legal framework since 2005 (Freedom House, 2010) and the PAPI 2013 survey also shows that, compared to 2011, 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.,