Partisanship, Information, and Perceptions of Government Corruption

Blais, André; Gidengil, Elisabeth; Kilibarda, Anja

doi:10.1093/ijpor/edv037

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“…Information is available on the dedicated website: http://electoraldemocracy.com/. For a scientific exploitation of the survey, seeBlais et al (2015).16 The MEDW dataset also contains information about Spain. We could however not use it, because the question on perceived corruption of municipalities was asked to a too small fraction of respondents.…”

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Politicians at higher levels of government are perceived as more corrupt

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Méon

2021

European Journal of Political Economy

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Using an original survey where French citizens were asked to assess corruption at all levels of government, we observe that institutional distance increases perceived corruption. Specifically, municipal governments are perceived as the least corrupt, followed by local governments, senators, deputies, and the national cabinet. The president of the Republic is perceived as slightly less corrupt than the national cabinet, but more corrupt than any other level of government. The relation is robust to alternative specifications, controlling for a series of individual and regional characteristics, and to alternative definitions of the dependent variable. It is not reducible to geographical distance. We observe similar results in other countries.

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Politicians at higher levels of government are perceived as more corrupt

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Méon

2021

European Journal of Political Economy

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“…High-income and highly educated citizens tend to perceive lower levels of corruption compared with other citizens (p. 5). Blais et al (2015) also come to the conclusion in most of their cases that the better informed citizens perceive less corruption than less informed ones. Hence, we expect that the general public diverges considerably from groups with an information advantage in its perceptions of corruption; and we expect the groups to diverge in two ways in less corrupt countries:…”

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Measuring corruption: whose perceptions should we rely on? Evidence from Iceland"

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2024

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The extent of corruption in Iceland is highly contested. International corruption measures indicate a relatively small amount of corruption while domestic public opinion suggest a serious corruption problem. Thus, uncertainty prevails about the actual extent of corruption and whose perceptions to rely on. This problem is relevant for corruption research in general. Perceptions are increasingly used as proxies for the actual levels of corruption in comparative research. But we still do not know enough about the accuracy of these proxies or the criteria they must meet in order to give dependable results. In fact, radical differences exist concerning evaluations of perceptions between those who believe in unbiased learning and those believing perceptual bias to be widespread. The purpose of this article is, therefore, to attempt to gauge which factors may influence how perceptions of corruption are shaped and why differences in corruption perceptions between different groups may be so pronounced. We present findings from original survey data from three parallel surveys – among the "public", experts, and "municipal practitioners" – conducted in Iceland in 2014. Expectations based on the perceptual bias approach are tested, indicating that perceptions may be affected by (1) information factors, (2) direct experience of corruption and (3) emotive factors. The validity of perception measures should be considered with this in mind. Domestic experts are likely to be well informed and avoid perceptual bias to a greater extent than other groups. Our examination of the Icelandic case suggests that the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) tends to underestimate corruption problems in "mature welfare states", such as Iceland, whilst the general public tends to overestimate it.

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“…The empirical literature shows that partisans tend to latch on to positive news about their favored party, while selectively filtering out or rejecting negative information (Jerit and Barabas 2012). With respect to corruption specifically, several studies have found that partisan supporters of the sitting government perceive lower corruption on average compared with opposition voters or non-partisans (Anderson and Tverdova 2003;Blais et al 2017;Agerberg 2020), or that they tend to be willing to overlook corruption scandals in their own party in elections (Anduiza et al 2013; Charron and Bågenholm 2016).…”

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What is the Influence of News Media on People’s Perception of Corruption? Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches

Charron

Annoni

2020

Soc Indic Res

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Does the source of one’s news media have a systematic effect on one’s perception of political corruption? While numerous studies have investigated the extent to which media affects trust in institutions, or the polarization of political values, this study shifts the focus on to how one’s media source conceived here as social media versus traditional media affects the perception of corruption in 2 ways. First, we hypothesize that citizens who consume their news predominately from social media will have higher perceptions of political corruption than consumers of more traditional media sources. Second, we hypothesize that perceptions among social media consumers will be more polarized. Specifically, we argue that the gap in corruption perception between supporters of government and opposition political parties will be larger among social media consumers compared to traditional news consumers. We test our hypotheses using newly collected survey data from the European Quality of Government Index survey from 2017, which contains nearly 78,000 respondents in 21 countries in the European Union. Estimating our model with both parametric and non-parametric approaches, we find robust empirical support for two of our 3 hypotheses.

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Partisanship, Information, and Perceptions of Government Corruption

Cited by 27 publications

References 30 publications

Politicians at higher levels of government are perceived as more corrupt

Politicians at higher levels of government are perceived as more corrupt

Measuring corruption: whose perceptions should we rely on? Evidence from Iceland"

What is the Influence of News Media on People’s Perception of Corruption? Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches

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