| dc.contributor.author | ARES, Macarena | |
| dc.contributor.author | HERNÁNDEZ, Enrique | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-10-13T09:12:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-10-13T09:12:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Research and politics, 2017, Vol. 4, No. 2, OnlineOnly | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2053-1680 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/48464 | |
| dc.description | First Published June 16, 2017 | en |
| dc.description | Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: 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). | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Empirical studies do not provide a univocal answer about the effects of corruption on political attitudes and behaviour. Focusing on the relationship between corruption and political trust, in this article we explore whether real-world corruption scandals have a negative causal effect on trust in politicians; whether the impact of scandals decays over time; and whether corruption scandals have a weaker impact among the supporters of the party involved in the scandal. We address these questions through a natural experiment generated by the coincidence of the uncovering of a corruption scandal in Spain (the Bárcenas scandal) and the fieldwork of the European Social Survey. Given that the day at which survey interviews were conducted is as-if random, the uncovering of the scandal represents a unique opportunity to assess the causal effect of corruption on individuals’ trust in politicians. The results indicate that: (i) the corruption scandal had a substantial negative effect on trust in politicians; (ii) the effect of the scandal was stronger in the days following its disclosure; (iii) the effect of the scandal was independent from individuals’ partisan preferences. | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | en |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Research and politics | en |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en |
| dc.title | The corrosive effect of corruption on trust in politicians : evidence from a natural experiment | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/2053168017714185 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 4 | en |
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| dc.identifier.issue | 2 | en |
