The effects of transparency regulation on political trust and perceived corruption: Evidence from a survey experiment

IF 3.2 2区 社会学 Q1 LAW Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2023-09-12 DOI:10.1111/rego.12555
Michele Crepaz, Gizem Arikan
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Scholarly evidence of transparency's beneficial effects on trust and perceptions of corruption remains debated and confined to the study of public administration. We contribute to this debate by extending the study of its effects to transparency legislation concerning members of parliament (MPs), political parties, and business interest groups. In an online experiment conducted in Ireland with 1373 citizens, we find that transparency in political donations improves trust in political parties, while asset declaration for conflict of interest prevention reduces perceptions of corruption toward MPs. However, transparency in lobbying is found to have no impact on attitudes toward business interest groups. This supports the common expectation that transparency improves political trust and reduces perceptions of corruption, but also confirms its complex effects. The study improves our understanding of transparency beyond open government providing an evaluation of different regulatory policies aimed at making the activities of parties, MPs, and lobby groups transparent.
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透明度管制对政治信任和感知腐败的影响:来自调查实验的证据
关于透明度对信任和对腐败看法的有益影响的学术证据仍然存在争议,而且仅限于公共行政研究。我们通过将其影响的研究扩展到涉及国会议员、政党和商业利益集团的透明度立法,从而为这场辩论做出贡献。在爱尔兰对1373名公民进行的一项在线实验中,我们发现政治捐款的透明度提高了对政党的信任,而为防止利益冲突而进行的资产申报则降低了对议员腐败的看法。然而,调查发现,游说的透明度对企业利益集团的态度没有影响。这支持了人们的普遍期望,即透明度可以提高政治信任,减少对腐败的看法,但也证实了透明度的复杂影响。这项研究提高了我们对透明度的理解,超越了对开放政府的理解,它对旨在使政党、国会议员和游说团体的活动透明化的不同监管政策进行了评估。
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期刊介绍: Regulation & Governance serves as the leading platform for the study of regulation and governance by political scientists, lawyers, sociologists, historians, criminologists, psychologists, anthropologists, economists and others. Research on regulation and governance, once fragmented across various disciplines and subject areas, has emerged at the cutting edge of paradigmatic change in the social sciences. Through the peer-reviewed journal Regulation & Governance, we seek to advance discussions between various disciplines about regulation and governance, promote the development of new theoretical and empirical understanding, and serve the growing needs of practitioners for a useful academic reference.
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