Rooting Out Corruption or Rooting for Corruption? The Heterogeneous Electoral Consequences of Scandals

Fernández-Vázquez, Pablo; Barberá, Pablo; Rivero, Gonzalo

doi:10.1017/psrm.2015.8

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“…Numerous factors are mentioned as potential sources for this variance in voters' responses. Voters may respond differently to different types of scandals (Bhatti et al, 2013;Carlson et al, 2000;Doherty et al, 2011;Fernández-Vázquez et al, 2016). Thompson (2013) distinguishes three types of scandals, namely sex scandals, financial fraud scandals, and corruption scandals.…”

Section: Heterogeneous Responses To Politicians' Moral Transgressionsmentioning

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Voters’ Partisan Responses to Politicians’ Immoral Behavior

Walter

Redlawsk

2019

Political Psychology

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Politicians’ moral behaviors affect how voters evaluate them. But existing empirical research on the effects of politicians’ violations of moral standards pays little attention to the heterogeneous moral foundations of voters in assessing responses to violations. It also pays little attention to the ways partisan preferences shape responses. We examine voters’ heterogeneous evaluative and emotional responses to presumably immoral behaviors by politicians. We make use of moral foundation theory’s argument that people vary in the extent to which they endorse, value, and use the five universally available moral intuitions: care, fairness, loyalty, authority and sanctity. We report on a 5 × 3 between‐subjects experiment asking a random sample of 2,026 U.S. respondents to respond to politicians’ violations of different moral foundations. We randomly vary which of the five foundations is violated and the partisanship of the actor (Republic/Democrat/Nonpartisan). Results suggest that partisanship rather than moral foundations drives most of U.S. voters’ responses to moral foundations violations by politicians. These foundations seem malleable when partisan actors are involved. While Democrats in this sample show stronger negative emotional response to moral violations than Republicans, partisans of both parties express significantly greater negativity when a politician of the other party violates a moral foundation.

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Section: Heterogeneous Responses To Politicians' Moral Transgressionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Voters’ Partisan Responses to Politicians’ Immoral Behavior

Walter

Redlawsk

2019

Political Psychology

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“…Collective action theories point to the importance of norms of reciprocity, reputation, and trust, where individual action is at least partly influenced by expectations about how other individuals will act (Aumann and Dreze 2008;Fehr and Fischbacher 2005;Gintis et al 2005;Ostrom 1998;Sen 1967). Persson, Rothstein, and Teorell (2013) suggest that citizens that expect most fellow citizens, as well as monitoring devices and punishment regimes, to be corrupt will be more willing to perpetuate corruption.…”

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Need or Greed? Conditions for Collective Action against Corruption

Bauhr

2016

Governance

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This article calls into question one of the implicit assumptions linking democratic accountability to reduced corruption, namely, that citizens will expose institutions rife with venality and mobilize for better government. Instead, mobilization may be contingent on the type of corruption. The study develops a distinction between need and greed corruption and suggest that citizens are more likely to engage in the fight against corruption when corruption is needed to gain access to “fair” treatment (need corruption) as opposed to special illicit advantages (greed corruption). Using data from the Global Corruption Barometer 2013, the study suggest that need corruption mobilizes citizens, in particular if they perceive that fellow citizens will also engage, while greed corruption leads to secrecy, demobilization, and a propensity to “free ride” on other citizens’ anticorruption efforts. The study thereby contributes to a better understanding of fundamental conditions for collective action against corruption and explaining why greed corruption persists in societies with well‐established institutions for accountability.

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“…For example, voters may prioritize factors other than corruption, such as the economy (see, e.g., Choi and Woo 2010;Casey 2014;Konstantinidis and Xezonakis 2013;Zechmeister and Zizumbo-Colunga 2013). Moreover, voters may benefit from some corrupt acts and as a result actively endorse the politicians that pursue them, for example, in the form of clientelism or other types of personal gains (Fernández-Vásquez et al 2016;Manzetti and Wilson 2007). Third, some scholars focus on political institutions and how they affect the possibilities for voters to hold politicians accountable.…”

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Are women more likely to throw the rascals out? The mobilizing effect of social service spending on female voters

2019

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This study focuses on gender differences in voter reactions to a corruption scandal in one's preferred party. We analyze, in a framework of 'exit, voice and loyalty', whether women differ from men in terms of turnout (exit), and given that they vote, whether they prefer a clean alternative party (voice) or whether they continue to vote for their preferred party (loyalty) involved in a corruption scandal. We employ sequential logit models using data from the European Quality of Government Index (EQI) survey from 2017, which contains roughly 77,000 respondents from 21 EU countries and 185 regions. We find that women generally are less tolerant of corruption, but that the effect is highly conditional. In areas where social service spending is more widespread, we find that female respondents are more likely to vote for an alternative party. Yet the odds of exit increase among women when social service spending is lower.

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Rooting Out Corruption or Rooting for Corruption? The Heterogeneous Electoral Consequences of Scandals

Cited by 93 publications

References 35 publications

Voters’ Partisan Responses to Politicians’ Immoral Behavior

Voters’ Partisan Responses to Politicians’ Immoral Behavior

Need or Greed? Conditions for Collective Action against Corruption

Are women more likely to throw the rascals out? The mobilizing effect of social service spending on female voters

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