Corruption and trust in political institutions in sub-Saharan Africa
Corruption and trust in political institutions in sub-Saharan Africa
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撒哈拉以南非洲政治机构的腐败和信任
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2008
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F. Roubaud
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E. Lavallée;Mireille Razafindrakoto;F. Roubaud
本文分析了腐败对政治机构信任程度的影响，使用了在18个撒哈拉以南非洲国家进行的非洲晴雨表调查提供的丰富可比数据。更具体地说，我们着手检验“高效润滑油”假设，即腐败可以加强公民的信任，因为行贿和裙带关系为本来稀缺和无法获得的服务和补贴打开了大门，这增加了机构信任。我们的研究结果否定了这一理论论点。我们表明，腐败从来没有产生信任增强效果，无论公共服务质量的评价。结果揭示了感知和经历的腐败如何对公民对政治机构的信任产生负面但不同的影响。感知腐败的负面影响随着公共服务质量的下降而减少，而经历腐败的负面影响随着公共服务质量的提高而减少。
This paper analyzes the impact of corruption on the extent of trust in political institutions using a rich collection of comparable data provided by the Afrobarometer surveys conducted in 18 sub-Saharan African countries. More specifically, we set out to test the “efficient grease” hypothesis that corruption can strengthen citizens’ trust since bribe paying and clientelism open the door to otherwise scarce and inaccessible services and subsidies, and that this increases institutional trust. Our findings reject this theoretical argument. We show that corruption never produces trust-enhancing effects regardless of the evaluation of public service quality. The results reveal how perceived and experienced corruption impact negatively, but differently, on citizens’ trust in political institutions. The adverse effect of perceived corruption decreases with the fall in public service quality, whereas the negative effect of experienced corruption decreases as public service quality increases.