The Role of Trust in Political Corruption: Outline of the Subject

• Authors: Turska-Kawa Agnieszka
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article is an attempt to analyze the relations between political trust and one of the greatest problems of the public domain: political corruption. It seems obvious that corrupt behaviors revealed in the public space are supposed to undermine citizens’ political trust. This thesis has been empirically verified many times. The author of the paper presents the cause and effect model with institutional trust as the independent variable. The article is an attempt to analyze the possible directions of its influence on political corrupt behaviors, assuming political trust to be the starting point, not the consequence, of the “social disease” occurring in the public domain.

Keywords

EN

political corruption; political trust; political behaviors

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Śląski. Wydział Nauk Społecznych
• Journal: Political Preferences
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 61-75

Contributors

author

Turska-Kawa Agnieszka

• University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.6084/m9.figshare.2057709