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Money, Sex and Broken Promises: Politicians' Bad Behaviour Reduces Trust
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Abstract 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 w... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
politician; ; representative; behavior; social norm; credibility; confidence; public opinion; Great Britain; France; Spain
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
MPs’; distrust; mandate; misleading voters; over-indulgence; taking money
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 481-500
Journal
Parliamentary Affairs, 72 (2019) 3
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10419/180852
ISSN
1460-2482
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed