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Citizens’ Corruption Perceptions in International Comparison: The Role of Social Status and the Interplay of Individual- and Country-Level Effects
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Citizens’ Corruption Perceptions in International Comparison:
The Role of Social Status and the Interplay of Individual- and Country-Level Effects
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Michael L. Smith, Ph.D.
Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Abstract
For a number of years, corruption research has been hampered by the lack of available international social surveys that could provide insight into the cross-national variation in determinants of individual-level corruption perceptions. Addressing this gap in the literature, this article presents the results of a cross-national analysis of 25 diverse countries participating in the ISSP 2006 Role of Government Survey, in which questions on corruption perceptions were incorporated into the module for the first time. The analysis was carried out by first identifying a structural equation model with the best fit with the combined dataset – taking into account social status, trust, bribery experience, contacts, political beliefs and other factors of the respondent – and then comparing the direct and indirect effects of the model parameters for each of the countries separately. Regression estimates of individual-level level variables, country-level variables and interaction effects were also conducted. The article finds that there are significant differences in the size and direction of the determination of corruption perceptions by social status between low-perceived and high-perceived corruption countries. The article also identifies important interaction effects between individual-level and country-level factors, particularly the relationship between social status and the degree of economic inequality in society, as well as the link between Protestantism and the respondent’s trust. The findings confirm a number of single-country studies on the determinants of corruption perceptions and highlight the need for future comparative research in this area.
Please note: the paper below presents the data for 15 countries. I am currently adding the data for 10 more countries, which will be presented at ASA.
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This article was made possible by a grant from the Open Society Fund, Prague on “AnalĂ˝za pĹ™etrvávánĂ
korupÄŤnĂho prostĹ™edĂ v ÄŤeskĂ© spoleÄŤnosti.” The author would also thank Lukáš Linek for making the datasets available on the basis of his GACR grant no. 403/06/1421 “Legitimita politickĂ©ho systĂ©mu a nerovnostĂ: vĂ˝voj v ÄŚeskĂ© republice v komparativnĂ perspektivÄ›.” The author can be contacted at
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Citizens’ Corruption Perceptions in International Comparison:
The Role of Social Status and the Interplay of Individual- and Country-Level Effects
Michael L. Smith, Ph.D.
Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Abstract
For a number of years, corruption research has been hampered by the lack of available international social
surveys that could provide insight into the cross-national variation in determinants of individual-level
corruption perceptions. Addressing this gap in the literature, this article presents the results of a cross-
national analysis of 25 diverse countries participating in the ISSP 2006 Role of Government Survey, in
which questions on corruption perceptions were incorporated into the module for the first time. The
analysis was carried out by first identifying a structural equation model with the best fit with the
combined dataset – taking into account social status, trust, bribery experience, contacts, political beliefs
and other factors of the respondent – and then comparing the direct and indirect effects of the model
parameters for each of the countries separately. Regression estimates of individual-level level variables,
country-level variables and interaction effects were also conducted. The article finds that there are
significant differences in the size and direction of the determination of corruption perceptions by social
status between low-perceived and high-perceived corruption countries. The article also identifies
important interaction effects between individual-level and country-level factors, particularly the
relationship between social status and the degree of economic inequality in society, as well as the link
between Protestantism and the respondent’s trust. The findings confirm a number of single-country
studies on the determinants of corruption perceptions and highlight the need for future comparative
research in this area.
Please note: the paper below presents the data for 15 countries. I am currently adding the data for
10 more countries, which will be presented at ASA.
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This article was made possible by a grant from the Open Society Fund, Prague on “AnalĂ˝za pĹ™etrvávánĂ
korupÄŤnĂho prostĹ™edĂ v ÄŤeskĂ© spoleÄŤnosti.” The author would also thank Lukáš Linek for making the datasets
available on the basis of his GACR grant no. 403/06/1421 “Legitimita politickĂ©ho systĂ©mu a nerovnostĂ: vĂ˝voj v
České republice v komparativnà perspektivě.” The author can be contacted at
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