IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cup/bjposi/v46y2016i01p67-94_00.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Pocketbook vs. Sociotropic Corruption Voting

Author

Listed:
  • Klašnja, Marko
  • Tucker, Joshua A.
  • Deegan-Krause, Kevin

Abstract

The article examines the relationship between corruption and voting behavior by defining two distinct channels: pocketbook corruption voting, i.e. how personal experiences with corruption affect voting behavior; and sociotropic corruption voting, i.e. how perceptions of corruption in society do so. Individual and aggregate data from Slovakia fail to support hypotheses that corruption is an undifferentiated valence issue, that it depends on the presence of a viable anti-corruption party, or that voters tolerate (or even prefer) corruption, and support the hypothesis that the importance of each channel depends on the salience of each source of corruption and that pocketbook corruption voting prevails unless a credible anti-corruption party shifts media coverage of corruption and activates sociotropic corruption voting. Previous studies may have underestimated the prevalence of corruption voting by not accounting for both channels.

Suggested Citation

  • Klašnja, Marko & Tucker, Joshua A. & Deegan-Krause, Kevin, 2016. "Pocketbook vs. Sociotropic Corruption Voting," British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 46(1), pages 67-94, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:bjposi:v:46:y:2016:i:01:p:67-94_00
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0007123414000088/type/journal_article
    File Function: link to article abstract page
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Joshua A Strayhorn, 2019. "Plausible deniability," Journal of Theoretical Politics, , vol. 31(4), pages 600-625, October.
    2. Beesley, Celeste & Hawkins, Darren, 2022. "Corruption, institutional trust and political engagement in Peru," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 151(C).
    3. Pedro C. Magalhães & Luís Aguiar-Conraria, 2017. "Procedural Fairness and Economic Voting," NIPE Working Papers 07/2017, NIPE - Universidade do Minho.
    4. Schaub, Max & Gereke, Johanna & Baldassarri, Delia, 2021. "Strangers in Hostile Lands: Exposure to Refugees and Right-Wing Support in Germany’s Eastern Regions," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 54(3-4), pages 686-717.
    5. Hasan Muhammad Baniamin & Ishtiaq Jamil, 2018. "Dynamics of Corruption and Citizens’ Trust in Anti-Corruption Agencies in Three South Asian Countries," Public Organization Review, Springer, vol. 18(3), pages 381-398, September.
    6. Lucía Mendoza Mora, 2022. "Perceiving bad apples versus rotten trees: Evidence from the exposure of politician misbehavior in Colombia," Documentos CEDE 20515, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE.
    7. Vuković, Vuk, 2020. "Corruption and re-election: how much can politicians steal before getting punished?," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 48(1), pages 124-143.
    8. Andreea Stancea & Aurelian Muntean, 2023. "An economic offer they cannot refuse! Economic expectations on incumbent government support in Core and periphery European countries," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 82(2), pages 99-119, March.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cup:bjposi:v:46:y:2016:i:01:p:67-94_00. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Kirk Stebbing (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.cambridge.org/jps .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.