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Corruption and support for decentralisation
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Abstract Existing explanations of individual preferences for decentralisation and secession focus on collective identity, economic considerations and party politics. This paper contributes to this literature by showing that preferences for fiscal and political decentralisation are also driven by concern abou... view more
Existing explanations of individual preferences for decentralisation and secession focus on collective identity, economic considerations and party politics. This paper contributes to this literature by showing that preferences for fiscal and political decentralisation are also driven by concern about the quality of government in the face of corruption. It makes two claims. Firstly, information on national‐level corruption decreases satisfaction with national politicians, and subsequently increases preferences for decentralisation and secession. Secondly, information on regional‐level corruption pushes citizens of highly corrupt regions to prefer national retrenchment and unitary states. The effects of this political compensation mechanism crosscut national identities and involve regions that are not ethnically or economically different from the core. We test our argument using a survey experiment in Spain and confirm its cross‐national generalisability with data from the European Values Study.... view less
Keywords
corruption; decentralization; survey research; survey; mediation; secession; quality; governance; government; satisfaction; EVS; Spain; Europe
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
support for decentralisation; benchmark theory; survey experiment; mediation analysis; ZA3811: EVS - European Values Study 1999 - Integrated Dataset
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 625-647
Journal
European Journal of Political Research, 60 (2021) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12420
ISSN
1475-6765
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed