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- Bågenholm, Andreas, 1969, et al.
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Does Politicization of Corruption Affect Voter Turnout?
- 2014
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Ingår i: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 28-31 2014.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper tests to what extent voters’ perceptions of corruption in the political system affect turnout and in particular if politicization of corruption in electoral campaigns affects that relationship. In previous research, some studies find that corruption increases turnout because voters either are bought off to participate or because they are mobilized on clean government issues, but the majority, more often country comparative studies, show that corruption decreases turnout because the presence of corruption corrodes the political system which leads to general cynicism, distrust and voter apathy. In this paper, we test a previously neglected factor, namely if politicization of corruption, defined as any party campaigning on anti-corruption issues, dampens or even reverses the presumed negative effects of perceiving political corruption on turnout. We argue that it is reasonable to believe that people’s willingness to participate will increase if parties address this important issue in electoral campaigns, as it will indicate party responsiveness to voter concerns. We apply multilevel modeling combining individual-level data and country-level data from 20 countries from the second module of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, country-level data from the Quality of Government Data Set and a unique data set on politicization of corruption issues in the election campaign. The findings suggest that politicization of corruption in the election to some extent dampens the negative effect of corruption perceptions on turnout, as the obtained positive interaction effect indicates that the negative effect of perceiving corruption as a problem on turnout is reduced in an election context where corruption is politicized. The results thus show that if corruption is not politicized, the individual corruption perceptions exert a significant negative effect on voting.
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- Persson, Mikael J, 1980, et al.
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Measuring Political Participation. Testing Social Desirability Bias in a Web-Survey Experiment
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Ingår i: Annual Meeting, American Political Science Association, Seattle, September 1-4, 2011.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- How reliable are the measures of political participation used in the major social science surveys? We know that there is considerable variation in estimated levels of political participation in different surveys, but we do not know whether this is due to item constructions, survey mode or the level of non-responses. In this paper, we investigate whether different item constructions affect the estimated levels of reported political participation. We use an embedded web-survey question wording experiment to isolate the effect of item construction. We test three different question wordings with introductions (a) expressing social desirability, (b) normalizing inactivity, and (c) a control group without any introduction to the question in combination with two different sets of response options (with and without face saving options) in a full factorial design, including six treatments in total. In addition, we evaluate which citizens who tend to overreport their level of political participation when different item constructions are applied. Our results show that applying different question introductions do not have any effect on the reported levels of participation. However, including face saving response alternatives considerably decrease reported levels of participation. Moreover, we find no evidence that particular groups tend to overreport their political activity more than others. Rather, respondents who lie about their level of participation can be found among all groups of citizens.
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- Persson, Mikael J, 1980, et al.
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Voter Turnout and Political Equality : Testing the ‘Law of Dispersion’ in a Swedish Natural Experiment
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Ingår i: Politics. - : SAGE Publications. - 0263-3957 .- 1467-9256. ; 33:3, s. 172-184
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- According to the ‘law of dispersion’, the level of inequality in political participation is higher when voter turnout is low. We empirically test this hypothesis by evaluating levels of voter turnout in the 2010 Swedish election to the Västra Götaland county council and in the 2011 re-election for the same county council. The re-election voter turnout was reduced by almost half, from 80.6 per cent to 44.1 per cent. Our results support the law of dispersion: the level of inequality in participation substantially increased between young and old, rich and poor, low and high educated and politically interested and uninterested.
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- Rothstein, Bo, 1954, et al.
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Perceptions of Corruption and Political Participation
- 2013
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Ingår i: Paper presented at Annual Conference of Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 11-14 2013.
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