Money, sex and broken promises : politicians' bad behaviour reduces trust
Rose, Richard and Wessels, Bernhard (2018) Money, sex and broken promises : politicians' bad behaviour reduces trust. Parliamentary Affairs. ISSN 0031-2290 (https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsy024)
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Abstract
This paper develops and tests empirically a theory of the effect on political trust of forms of behaviour that violate social, political and legal norms about how politicians ought to behave. These include taking money for favours, over-indulging in private life and making misleading promises to win votes. The evidence comes from a specially designed survey in Britain, France and Spain, countries where popular distrust of politicians appears greater than illegal political behaviour. Bad behaviours, especially abandoning election promises once in office, have a much stronger effect on distrust of political parties that do differences in partisanship. Comparing national regressions shows that the impact of bad behaviours is very similar in Britain, France and Spain.
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Rose, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5117-5271 and Wessels, Bernhard;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 64229 Dates: DateEvent16 July 2018Published16 July 2018Published Online26 May 2018AcceptedSubjects: Political Science Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Government and Public Policy > Politics Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 05 Jun 2018 14:00 Last modified: 22 Dec 2024 01:21 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/64229