Perceptions of Corruption & External Political Efficacy Regime Stability & Democratic Legitimacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perceptions of Corruption & External Political Efficacy Regime Stability & Democratic Legitimacy write by Sean S. Bentzen. This book was released on 2014. Perceptions of Corruption & External Political Efficacy Regime Stability & Democratic Legitimacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Do perceptions of corruption affect external political efficacy? If so, how? This paper investigates whether perceptions of corruption contribute to external efficacy on the aggregate, country level, and on the individual level. This paper seeks to expand the scope of the current corruption and efficacy literatures by examining, on the aggregate level, ninety five countries, and on the individual level, all available barometer surveys from the period of 2000-2012. Methods of analysis include time series, standard OLS, and hierarchical, or multilevel, modeling. In addition to the primary research question, this paper investigates the potential interactions between perceptions of corruption and press freedom, trust in media, and socioeconomic status. On the aggregate level, this paper finds no statistically significant relationship between perceptions of corruption and external political efficacy. On the individual level, this paper consistently finds a statistically significant relationship between perceptions of corruption and external political efficacy. Moreover, the interactions between perceptions of corruption and trust in media, and socioeconomic status, were generally statistically significant, indicating that the magnitude of the effect that perceptions of corruption have on external efficacy does change based upon one's socioeconomic status and/or trust in media. This paper tests and verifies the philosophical assumptions that perceptions of corruption contribute to external political efficacy, and is therefore a threat to, in particular, democratic legitimacy.
Political Trust
Political Trust - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Trust write by Sonja Zmerli. This book was released on 2013. Political Trust available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book, by Sonja Zmerli and Marc Hooghe, presents cutting-edge empirical research on political trust as a relational concept. From a European comparative perspective it addresses a broad range of contested issues. Can political trust be conceived as a one-dimensional concept and to what extent do international population surveys warrant the culturally equivalent measurement of political trust across European societies? Is there indeed an observable general trend of declining levels of political trust? What are the individual, societal and political prerequisites of political trust and how do they translate into trustful attitudes? Why do so many Eastern European citizens still distrust their political institutions and how does the implementation of welfare state policies both enhance and benefit from political trust? The comprehensive empirical evidence presented in this book by leading scholars provides valuable insights into the relational aspects of political trust and will certainly stimulate future research. This book features: a state-of-the-art European perspective on political trust; an analysis of the most recent trends with regard to the development of political trust; a comparison of traditional and emerging democracies in Europe; the consequences of political trust on political stability and the welfare state; a counterbalance to the gloomy American picture of declining political trust levels.
The Cultural Logic of Politics in Mainland China and Taiwan
The Cultural Logic of Politics in Mainland China and Taiwan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cultural Logic of Politics in Mainland China and Taiwan write by Tianjian Shi. This book was released on 2015. The Cultural Logic of Politics in Mainland China and Taiwan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book uses surveys, statistics, and case studies to explain why and how cultural norms affect political attitudes and behavior.
Size and Local Democracy
Size and Local Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Size and Local Democracy write by Bas Denters. This book was released on 2014-09-26. Size and Local Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How large should local governments be, and what are the implications of changing the scale of local governments for the quality of local democracy? These questions have stood at the centre of debates among scholars and public sector reformers alike fro
Political Corruption
Political Corruption - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Corruption write by Inge Amundsen. This book was released on 1999-01-01. Political Corruption available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
