The corrosive effect of corruption on trust in politicians: Evidence from a natural experiment

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 po...

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Autores: Ares, Macarena, Hernández, Enrique
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
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Palavra-chave:Corrupció
Experiments
Confiança (Psicologia)
Polítics
Escàndols
Corruption
Trust
Politicians
Scandals
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spelling The corrosive effect of corruption on trust in politicians: Evidence from a natural experimentAres, MacarenaHernández, EnriqueCorrupcióExperimentsConfiança (Psicologia)PolíticsEscàndolsCorruptionExperimentsTrustPoliticiansScandalsEmpirical 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.2017info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/183662Articles publicats en revistes (Ciència Política, Dret Constitucional i Filosofia del Dret)reponame:Dipòsit Digital de la UBinstname:Universidad de BarcelonaInglésReproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168017714185Research & Politics, 2017, vol. 4, num. 2, p. 1-8https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168017714185cc-by-nc (c) Ares, Macarena et al., 2017https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/1836622026-05-27T06:46:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The corrosive effect of corruption on trust in politicians: Evidence from a natural experiment
title The corrosive effect of corruption on trust in politicians: Evidence from a natural experiment
spellingShingle The corrosive effect of corruption on trust in politicians: Evidence from a natural experiment
Ares, Macarena
Corrupció
Experiments
Confiança (Psicologia)
Polítics
Escàndols
Corruption
Experiments
Trust
Politicians
Scandals
title_short The corrosive effect of corruption on trust in politicians: Evidence from a natural experiment
title_full The corrosive effect of corruption on trust in politicians: Evidence from a natural experiment
title_fullStr The corrosive effect of corruption on trust in politicians: Evidence from a natural experiment
title_full_unstemmed The corrosive effect of corruption on trust in politicians: Evidence from a natural experiment
title_sort The corrosive effect of corruption on trust in politicians: Evidence from a natural experiment
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Ares, Macarena
Hernández, Enrique
author Ares, Macarena
author_facet Ares, Macarena
Hernández, Enrique
author_role author
author2 Hernández, Enrique
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Corrupció
Experiments
Confiança (Psicologia)
Polítics
Escàndols
Corruption
Experiments
Trust
Politicians
Scandals
topic Corrupció
Experiments
Confiança (Psicologia)
Polítics
Escàndols
Corruption
Experiments
Trust
Politicians
Scandals
description 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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