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Title: | The corrosive effect of corruption on trust in politicians: Evidence from a natural experiment |
Author: | Ares, Macarena Hernández, Enrique |
Keywords: | Corrupció Experiments Confiança (Psicologia) Polítics Escàndols Corruption Experiments Trust Politicians Scandals |
Issue Date: | 2017 |
Abstract: | 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. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168017714185 |
It is part of: | Research & Politics, 2017, vol. 4, num. 2, p. 1-8 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/183662 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168017714185 |
ISSN: | 2053-1680 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Ciència Política, Dret Constitucional i Filosofia del Dret) |
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