How Voters Punish and Donors Protect Legislators Embroiled in Scandal
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Sex and corruption: how sexism shapes voters’ responses to scandal
Conventional wisdom suggests that voters rarely punish politicians for involvement in sex scandals. Yet, we argue that some voters are likely to hold politicians accountable for their moral transgressions. We theorize that both hostile and benevolent sexists are more likely than nonsexists to punish women for involvement in a sex scandal – but each for different reasons. We posit that women pol...
متن کاملWhen Do Voters Punish Corrupt Politicians? Experimental Evidence from Brazil
While there is a vast literature about the consequences of corruption, research focused on the causes of non-corrupt governments is still nascent. Electoral accountability is one important means of changing existing corruption dynamics in government, and one potential way of punishing corrupt elected officials is to give voters information about the corrupt behavior. In a randomized field exper...
متن کاملCan Voters be Primed to Choose Better Legislators? Experimental Evidence from Rural India
Ethnic politics and political corruption are important concerns in many developing country democracies. We conducted field experiments in rural India to examine the responsiveness of voter preferences to priming about the relevance of ethnicity and politician quality for service delivery. We used vignette experiments to examine how voter preferences vary with information about politician qualit...
متن کاملScandal Potential How political context and news congestion affect the president’s vulnerability to media scandal
Despite its importance in contemporary American politics, presidential scandal is poorly understood within political science. Scholars typically interpret scandals as resulting from the disclosure of official misbehavior, but the likelihood and intensity of media scandals is also influenced by the political and news context. In this article, I provide a theoretical argument for two independent ...
متن کاملViews of US Voters on Compensating Living Kidney Donors.
IMPORTANCE Patients in the United States waiting for kidney transplantation die in increasing numbers owing to the severe kidney shortage, which might be alleviated by compensating living kidney donors. OBJECTIVE To determine the willingness of voting US citizens to become living kidney donors and to ascertain the potential influence of compensation for donation. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTIC...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Political Research Quarterly
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1065-9129,1938-274X
DOI: 10.1177/1065912918781044