The ‘Perverse Effects' of Political Corruption

Porta, Donatella della; Vannucci, Alberto

doi:10.1111/1467-9248.00094

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“…30-31) provides direct justification for the use of cement consumption as an indicator variable noting that: 'In Nigeria in 1975, the military government ordered cement that totalled two-thirds of the estimated needs of all of Africa and which exceeded the productive capacity of Western Europe and the Soviet Union'. Supportive of this is also della Porta and Vannucci (1997) who note that per capita cement consumption in Italy (a country that is perceived to be high on corruption indices) has been double that of the US and triple that of the UK and Germany. It seems, therefore, that cement is a natural proxy for large-scale projects.…”

Section: Indicators Of Corruptionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Corruption Around the World: Evidence from a Structural Model

2004

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The causes and consequences of corruption have attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy makers. Central in the discussion on the impact of corruption are perception-based indices. Recent research has shown that perceived corruption might not be a good indicator of actual corruption in a country. In this paper, we employ a structural equation model-that treats corruption as a latent variable that is directly related to its underlying causes and effects-to derive an index of corruption. The index of corruption is derived for approximately 100 countries over the period 1976-97.

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Section: Indicators Of Corruptionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Corruption Around the World: Evidence from a Structural Model

2004

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“…The other key caveat which the present study acknowledges is that the perceived corruption of the political system is likely to be both psychologically consequential of the salient group membership and robustly predictive of beliefs in conspiracy theories. Some authors (e.g., Della Porta & Vannucci, 1997;Miller et al, 2016) have suggested that people who perceive political corruption to be an embedded feature of states' political institutions will be more prone to see politicians as those who tend to side-step or even tailor specific arrangements to fit their personal rather than the country's best interests. For instance, Miller et al (2016) have shown how people who were both highly knowledgeable about politics and distrustful of the authorities were generally predisposed to endorse ideologically motivated conspiracy theories.…”

Section: The Moderating Role Of the Perceived Political Corruptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“They've conspired against us”: Understanding the role of social identification and conspiracy beliefs in justification of ingroup collective behavior

Chayinska

Minescu

2018

Euro J Social Psych

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The present research investigates conditions under which beliefs in conspiracy theories predict the desire to justify ingroup behavior in the context of intergroup conflict. We propose that within the context of Ukraine's intergroup conflict over the annexation of Crimea, supporters (but not opponents) of the “Euromaidan” social movement are likely to validate protesters’ collective actions as just to the extent that they believe that the authorities are engaged in annexation‐related conspiracies. We also examine the moderating role of perceived political corruption in these processes. Using a public opinion survey of 315 Ukrainians, we found support for our hypothesized moderated mediation model—identification with “Euromaidan” increased beliefs in the annexation‐related conspiracy theories, which in turn, increased justification of protesters’ actions in the setting of intergroup conflict. However, this mediation was only observed among those supporters of the Euromaidan who perceived political corruption to be at a low or average level.

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“…Corrupt decision making is an indication that rules of administrative procedures of equal treatment, openness, and control are not being upheld. Corruption also, as a rule, brings with it a misallocation of public resources, thus reducing efficiency (Della Porta and Vannucci 1997; World Bank 1997). 4 These two measures are strongly correlated (Pearson's r for the whole period is 0.69, significant at the 0.01 level).…”

Section: Democracy and State Capacity: A Specificationmentioning

confidence: 99%