TY - JOUR
T1 - Information credibility and responses to corruption
T2 - A replication and extension in Argentina
AU - Winters, Matthew S.
AU - Weitz-Shapiro, Rebecca
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments. This paper is part of an ongoing project in which the authors’ names rotate between first and second position; both authors contributed equally to this article. Thanks to Noam Lupu, Virginia Oliveros, and Luis Schiumerini for their work in organizing the 2015 Argentine Panel Election Study; to Simon Chauchard, Natascha Neudorfer, and seminar audiences at Boston University, Illinois State University, the University of Essex, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Texas at Austin, and Yale University for comments; and to Pedro Dal Bó, Brian Gaines, and Jim Kuklinksi for very useful discussions. A related paper was presented at the 2016 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association and the 2017 annual meeting of the European Political Science Association. Data collection was funded in part using a Salomon Faculty Research Award from Brown University.
Publisher Copyright:
© The European Political Science Association 2019.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - Existing research shows that survey respondents are sensitive to the source of information about political corruption and respond more strongly to information from more credible sources. This behavior occurs more frequently among the politically sophisticated. In a nation-wide survey in Argentina, we successfully replicate results originally found in a study in Brazil. In addition, we examine whether citizens process information about corruption differently depending on their partisan identities. At odds with our initial expectations, we find that copartisans, opposition partisans, and other/non-partisans distinguish between information sources in very similar ways. These results suggest that even though partisanship affects baseline assessments of political candidates, citizens of all types are sensitive to the credibility of information they receive about political corruption.
AB - Existing research shows that survey respondents are sensitive to the source of information about political corruption and respond more strongly to information from more credible sources. This behavior occurs more frequently among the politically sophisticated. In a nation-wide survey in Argentina, we successfully replicate results originally found in a study in Brazil. In addition, we examine whether citizens process information about corruption differently depending on their partisan identities. At odds with our initial expectations, we find that copartisans, opposition partisans, and other/non-partisans distinguish between information sources in very similar ways. These results suggest that even though partisanship affects baseline assessments of political candidates, citizens of all types are sensitive to the credibility of information they receive about political corruption.
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U2 - 10.1017/psrm.2018.50
DO - 10.1017/psrm.2018.50
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85055682350
SN - 2049-8470
VL - 8
SP - 169
EP - 177
JO - Political Science Research and Methods
JF - Political Science Research and Methods
IS - 1
ER -