Collective action against corruption in Western and non-Western countries: cross-cultural implications of the Axiological-Identitary Collective Action Model
People sometimes protest government corruption, yet our current understanding of why they do so is culturally constrained. Can we separate pancultural factors influencing people’s willingness to protest government corruption from factors culturally specific to each socioecological context? Surprisin...
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| author | Dmitry Grigoryev Albina Gallyamova Lucian Gideon Conway Alivia Zubrod José Manuel Sabucedo Marcos Dono Anastasia Batkhina Klaus Boehnke |
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| description | People sometimes protest government corruption, yet our current understanding of why they do so is culturally constrained. Can we separate pancultural factors influencing people’s willingness to protest government corruption from factors culturally specific to each socioecological context? Surprisingly little cross-cultural data exist on this important question. To fill this gap, we performed a cross-cultural test of the Axiological-Identitary Collective Action Model (AICAM) regarding the intention to protest against corruption. As a collective action framework, AICAM integrates three classical antecedents of collective action (injustice, efficacy, identity) with axiological variables (ideology and morality). A total sample of 2,316 participants from six countries (Nigeria, Russia, India, Spain, United States, Germany) in a multilevel analysis of AICAM predictions showed that the positive relationship of the intention to protest corruption with moral obligation, system-based anger, and national identification can be considered pancultural. In contrast, the relationships between system justification and perceived efficacy are culturally specific. System justification negatively predicted the intention to participate only in countries with high levels of wealth, while perceived efficacy positively predicted it only in countries perceived as less corrupt. These findings highlight the importance of accounting features of socioecology and separating pancultural from culture-specific effects in understanding collective action. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0d90e79fa7c345b4a08ad0e4f8a0e78d2024-03-20T04:37:32ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782024-03-011510.3389/fpsyg.2024.12695521269552Collective action against corruption in Western and non-Western countries: cross-cultural implications of the Axiological-Identitary Collective Action ModelDmitry Grigoryev0Albina Gallyamova1Lucian Gideon Conway2Alivia Zubrod3José Manuel Sabucedo4Marcos Dono5Anastasia Batkhina6Klaus Boehnke7HSE University, Moscow, RussiaHSE University, Moscow, RussiaGrove City College, Grove City, PA, United StatesPark University, Parkville, MO, United StatesUniversity of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, SpainUniversity of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, SpainHSE University, Moscow, RussiaConstructor University, Bremen, GermanyPeople sometimes protest government corruption, yet our current understanding of why they do so is culturally constrained. Can we separate pancultural factors influencing people’s willingness to protest government corruption from factors culturally specific to each socioecological context? Surprisingly little cross-cultural data exist on this important question. To fill this gap, we performed a cross-cultural test of the Axiological-Identitary Collective Action Model (AICAM) regarding the intention to protest against corruption. As a collective action framework, AICAM integrates three classical antecedents of collective action (injustice, efficacy, identity) with axiological variables (ideology and morality). A total sample of 2,316 participants from six countries (Nigeria, Russia, India, Spain, United States, Germany) in a multilevel analysis of AICAM predictions showed that the positive relationship of the intention to protest corruption with moral obligation, system-based anger, and national identification can be considered pancultural. In contrast, the relationships between system justification and perceived efficacy are culturally specific. System justification negatively predicted the intention to participate only in countries with high levels of wealth, while perceived efficacy positively predicted it only in countries perceived as less corrupt. These findings highlight the importance of accounting features of socioecology and separating pancultural from culture-specific effects in understanding collective action.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1269552/fullcollective actionsystem justificationperceived efficacynational identificationmoral obligationprotest against political corruption |
| spellingShingle | Dmitry Grigoryev Albina Gallyamova Lucian Gideon Conway Alivia Zubrod José Manuel Sabucedo Marcos Dono Anastasia Batkhina Klaus Boehnke Collective action against corruption in Western and non-Western countries: cross-cultural implications of the Axiological-Identitary Collective Action Model Frontiers in Psychology collective action system justification perceived efficacy national identification moral obligation protest against political corruption |
| title | Collective action against corruption in Western and non-Western countries: cross-cultural implications of the Axiological-Identitary Collective Action Model |
| title_full | Collective action against corruption in Western and non-Western countries: cross-cultural implications of the Axiological-Identitary Collective Action Model |
| title_fullStr | Collective action against corruption in Western and non-Western countries: cross-cultural implications of the Axiological-Identitary Collective Action Model |
| title_full_unstemmed | Collective action against corruption in Western and non-Western countries: cross-cultural implications of the Axiological-Identitary Collective Action Model |
| title_short | Collective action against corruption in Western and non-Western countries: cross-cultural implications of the Axiological-Identitary Collective Action Model |
| title_sort | collective action against corruption in western and non western countries cross cultural implications of the axiological identitary collective action model |
| topic | collective action system justification perceived efficacy national identification moral obligation protest against political corruption |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1269552/full |
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