Mexicans react to electoral fraud and political corruption: an assessment of public opinion and voting behavior

McCann, James A.; Domínguez, Jorge I.

doi:10.1016/s0261-3794(98)00026-2

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“…Previous studies have found a connection between corruption perceptions and more unconventional means of participation, like protests and demonstration (Cornell and Grimes 2015;Gingerich 2009;McCann and Domínguez 1998). Given their disillusionment with formal political institutions, I propose that citizens with higher education instead are more likely to use non-institutionalized forms of participation to channel their political engagement when corruption is high.…”

Section: Corruption and Education In Democraciesmentioning

confidence: 80%

The Curse of Knowledge? Education, Corruption, and Politics

Agerberg

2018

Polit Behav

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Education has consistently been found to be positively related to political participation, electoral turnout, civic engagement, political knowledge, and democratic attitudes and opinions. Previous research has, however, not sufficiently acknowledged the large existing between-and within-country variations in institutional quality when studying this relationship. This study asks the question: how do highly educated, well-informed, and critical citizens react to a political system with low-quality institutions; a system with high levels of corruption? Researchers have in recent years started to acknowledge corruption as a relevant factor in explaining democratic attitudes and behavior. However, how corruption interacts with individual characteristics in shaping political behavior is largely unexplored in the literature. This paper focuses on the interaction between corruption and education with regard to different political attitudes and democratic behavior. Using both individual-and country-level data from 31 democracies the results show that corruption thwarts many of the positive effects of education with regard to politics: The results indicate that when corruption is high, educated and politically sophisticated citizens are as likely as low-educated citizens to feel resignation with regard to formal political institutions. This, in turn, is likely to affect patterns of political participation among these citizens.

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Section: Corruption and Education In Democraciesmentioning

confidence: 80%

The Curse of Knowledge? Education, Corruption, and Politics

Agerberg

2018

Polit Behav

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“…In these new democracies, popular elections are frequently marked by fraud and irregularities (Simpser 2010), which affect public confidence in democracy and regime legitimacy (Birch 2008;Elklit and Reynolds 2002;Rose andMischler 2009), political participation (McCann andDomínguez 1998), and protest and political violence (Eisenstadt 2002). For both historical and contemporary cases, the question of how informal practices of ballot stuffing, registration fraud, and other electoral malpractices are eliminated is now central to the study of democratization (Ziblatt 2006), which had earlier focused on changes to formal rules like the extension of the suffrage or the development of responsible and limited government.…”

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Deterring or Displacing Electoral Irregularities? Spillover Effects of Observers in a Randomized Field Experiment in Ghana

Ichino

Schündeln²

2012

The Journal of Politics

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This article studies the effect of domestic observers deployed to reduce irregularities in voter registration in a new democracy, and in particular, the response of political parties' agents to these observers. Because political parties operate over large areas and party agents may relocate away from observed registration centers, observers may displace rather than deter irregularities. We design and implement a large-scale two-level randomized field experiment in Ghana in 2008 taking into account these spillovers and find evidence for substantial irregularities: the registration increase is smaller in constituencies with observers; within these constituencies with observers, the increase is about one-sixth smaller on average in electoral areas with observers than in those without; but some of the deterred registrations appear to be displaced to nearby electoral areas. The finding of positive spillovers has implications for the measurement of electoral irregularities or analysis of data collected by observers.

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“…In a pathbreaking article, McCann and Domínguez (1998) demonstrated using survey data that perception of electoral fraud was negatively related with voter turnout in Mexico in the early 1990s. We expect then that trust in elections and electoral participation are negatively related in Latin America.…”

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Trust in elections, vote buying, and turnout in Latin America

Carreras

İrepoğlu

2013

Electoral Studies

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a b s t r a c tAlthough national elections in Latin America are now described as reasonably free and fair by international observations teams, electoral processes are still affected by a series of malpractices (unequal access to the media and public resources, registration problems, vote buying). These irregularities negatively affect citizens' trust in elections. In this paper, we analyze the consequences of low trust in elections and exposure to vote buying practices on electoral participation in Latin America. Using data from the 2010 wave of LAPOP surveys, we find that perceiving that the election is unfair reduces the willingness to participate in national elections, but receiving material incentives during the campaign has the opposite effect of increasing electoral participation. We also show that the effect of trust in elections on turnout is larger in countries where voting is not mandatory.

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Mexicans react to electoral fraud and political corruption: an assessment of public opinion and voting behavior

Cited by 133 publications

References 13 publications

The Curse of Knowledge? Education, Corruption, and Politics

The Curse of Knowledge? Education, Corruption, and Politics

Deterring or Displacing Electoral Irregularities? Spillover Effects of Observers in a Randomized Field Experiment in Ghana

Trust in elections, vote buying, and turnout in Latin America

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