The corrosive effect of corruption on trust in politicians: evidence from a natural experiment
| Autor: | Enrique Hernández, Macarena Ares |
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| Přispěvatelé: | University of Zurich, Hernández, Enrique |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Politicians
Natural experiment Public Administration Sociology and Political Science Corruption media_common.quotation_subject corruption 0211 other engineering and technologies lcsh:Political science 02 engineering and technology trust in politicians Trust Treatment and control groups Confiança (Psicologia) Politics Empirical research Scandals 3312 Sociology and Political Science Political science 320 Political science 050602 political science & public administration Treatment effect Escàndols Baseline (configuration management) media_common natural experiment 021110 strategic defence & security studies 05 social sciences Causal effect 3321 Public Administration Political support scandals Corrupció 0506 political science European Social Survey Trust in politicians 3320 Political Science and International Relations Law Political economy Political Science and International Relations 10113 Institute of Political Science Experiments political support lcsh:J Polítics |
| Zdroj: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Dipòsit Digital de la UB Universidad de Barcelona Research & Politics, Vol 4 (2017) |
| Popis: | First Published June 16, 2017 Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). Empirical studies do not provide a univocal answer about the effects of corruption on political attitudes and behaviour. Focusing on the relationship between corruption and political trust, in this article we explore whether real-world corruption scandals have a negative causal effect on trust in politicians; whether the impact of scandals decays over time; and whether corruption scandals have a weaker impact among the supporters of the party involved in the scandal. We address these questions through a natural experiment generated by the coincidence of the uncovering of a corruption scandal in Spain (the Bárcenas scandal) and the fieldwork of the European Social Survey. Given that the day at which survey interviews were conducted is as-if random, the uncovering of the scandal represents a unique opportunity to assess the causal effect of corruption on individuals’ trust in politicians. The results indicate that: (i) the corruption scandal had a substantial negative effect on trust in politicians; (ii) the effect of the scandal was stronger in the days following its disclosure; (iii) the effect of the scandal was independent from individuals’ partisan preferences. |
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