TY - JOUR
T1 - Who Sees Corruption? The Bases of Mass Perceptions of Political Corruption in Latin America
AU - Canache, Damarys
AU - Cawvey, Matthew
AU - Hayes, Matthew
AU - Mondak, Jeffery J.
N1 - Damarys Canache is a professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Venezuela: Public Opinion and Protest in a Fragile Democracy , and of numerous articles in journals such as Comparative Political Studies , the British Journal of Political Science , and Latin American Politics and Society . Matthew Cawvey is an assistant professor of political science at Erskine College. He is the coauthor of several journal articles and book chapters, including articles in the International Review of Victimology , the International Journal of Public Opinion Research , and the Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs . Matthew Hayes is an assistant professor of political science at Rice University. He is the coauthor of numerous journal articles and book chapters, including articles in the American Political Science Review , the Journal of Politics , and the Journal of Research in Personality . Jeffery J. Mondak is the James M. Benson Chair in public issues and civic leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Personality and the Foundations of Political Behavior , and Nothing to Read: Newspapers and Elections in a Social Experiment . 1 Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL, USA 2 Department of Political Science, Erskine College, Due West, SC, USA 3 Department of Political Science, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Jeffery J. Mondak, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, 61801 IL, USA. Email: [email protected] 8 2019 11 2 133 160 21 1 2019 24 8 2019 © The Author(s) 2019 2019 SAGE Publications Ltd, or GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, unless otherwise noted. Manuscript content on this site is licensed under Creative Commons Licenses This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License ( http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ ) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages ( https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage ). The capacity of citizens to see political corruption where it exists and to link such perceptions to evaluations of public officials constitutes an important test of political accountability. Although past research has established that perceived corruption influences political judgments, much less is known regarding the critical prefatory matter of who sees corruption. This article develops a multifaceted theoretical framework regarding the possible bases of perceived corruption. Experiential factors – personal experience and vicarious experience with bribery – mark the starting point for our account. We then incorporate psychological dispositions that may colour judgments about corruption and that may strengthen or weaken the links between experiences and perceptions. Expectations derived from this framework are tested in a series of multi-level models, with data from over 30,000 survey respondents from 17 nations and 84 regions in the Americas. La capacidad de los ciudadanos de observar y percibir la corrupción política cuando existe, y de connectar la percepción de la corrupción con la evaluación de los funcionarios públicos constituye una condición importante para la adjudicación de responsabilidad politica. Aunque investigaciones anteriores han establecido que la percepción de la corrupción affecta los juicios de responabilidad política, menos se conoce sobre quienes perciben la corrupción política. Este artículo propone un marco teorico multidimensional de la percepción de la corrupción. La experiencia de la corrupción (directa e indirecta) constituye la base inicial de nuestro marco. Disposiciones sicológicas son incorporadas para explicar la función moderadora, de fortalezer o debilitar, la conneción entre la experiencia y la percepción de la corrupción que establecen los ciudadanos. Las expectativas teóricas se someten a prueba empíricas utilizando modelos multi-nivel, con datos de más de 30,000 encuestados de 17 naciones y 84 regiones de América Latina. corruption bribery subnational effects personality Big Five corrupción soborno effectos sub-nacionales personalidad inventario de los Cinco Grandes Declaration of Conflicting Interests The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Funding The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article: This study was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (Award 0962153, to Canache and Mondak).
PY - 2019/8/1
Y1 - 2019/8/1
N2 - The capacity of citizens to see political corruption where it exists and to link such perceptions to evaluations of public officials constitutes an important test of political accountability. Although past research has established that perceived corruption influences political judgments, much less is known regarding the critical prefatory matter of who sees corruption. This article develops a multifaceted theoretical framework regarding the possible bases of perceived corruption. Experiential factors – personal experience and vicarious experience with bribery – mark the starting point for our account. We then incorporate psychological dispositions that may colour judgments about corruption and that may strengthen or weaken the links between experiences and perceptions. Expectations derived from this framework are tested in a series of multi-level models, with data from over 30,000 survey respondents from 17 nations and 84 regions in the Americas.
AB - The capacity of citizens to see political corruption where it exists and to link such perceptions to evaluations of public officials constitutes an important test of political accountability. Although past research has established that perceived corruption influences political judgments, much less is known regarding the critical prefatory matter of who sees corruption. This article develops a multifaceted theoretical framework regarding the possible bases of perceived corruption. Experiential factors – personal experience and vicarious experience with bribery – mark the starting point for our account. We then incorporate psychological dispositions that may colour judgments about corruption and that may strengthen or weaken the links between experiences and perceptions. Expectations derived from this framework are tested in a series of multi-level models, with data from over 30,000 survey respondents from 17 nations and 84 regions in the Americas.
KW - Big Five
KW - bribery
KW - corruption
KW - personality
KW - subnational effects
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U2 - 10.1177/1866802X19876462
DO - 10.1177/1866802X19876462
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074156516
SN - 1866-802X
VL - 11
SP - 133
EP - 160
JO - Journal of Politics in Latin America
JF - Journal of Politics in Latin America
IS - 2
ER -