Artikel

Money, Sex and Broken Promises: Politicians’ Bad Behaviour Reduces Trust

This article 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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Parliamentary Affairs ; ISSN: 1460-2482 ; Volume: 72 ; Year: 2019 ; Issue: 3 ; Pages: 481-500 ; London: Oxford University Press

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
distrust
mandate
misleading voters
MPs’
behaviour
over-indulgence
taking money

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Rose, Richard
Weßels, Bernhard
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Oxford University Press
(wo)
Oxford
(wann)
2019

DOI
doi:10.1093/pa/gsy024
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Rose, Richard
  • Weßels, Bernhard
  • Oxford University Press

Entstanden

  • 2019

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