Public Costs versus Private Gain: Assessing the Effect of Different Types of Information about Corruption Incidents on Electoral Accountability

Are voters’ attitudes towards corrupt candidates affected by the details they learn about candidates’ wrongdoing? This study examines the effect of including different pieces of information emphasising the public costs or private gain of a similar corruption incident on the probability of support fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alejandro Avenburg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2019-04-01
Series:Journal of Politics in Latin America
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1866802X19840457