¿Qué miden las encuestas sobre corrupción en América Latina? Evidencias de Argentina, México y Uruguay
Reliable survey data may be an effective tool to assist anti-corruption policies. But, how reliable are survey efforts to measure attitudes towards corruption and corrupt behavior? In this paper we demonstrate that responses to survey questions on corruption are infl uenced by the levels of awarenes...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Centro de Estudios Sociales y de Opinión Pública, CESOP
2013
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| Online Access: | http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=4703155 |
| Source: | Revista legislativa de estudios sociales y de opinión pública, Vol. 6, Nº. 11, 2013, pags. 87-106 |
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Reliable survey data may be an effective tool to assist anti-corruption
policies. But, how reliable are survey efforts to measure attitudes
towards corruption and corrupt behavior? In this paper we demonstrate
that responses to survey questions on corruption are infl uenced
by the levels of awareness and conceptualization of corruption (what
individuals and societies believe corruption is and is not), and by the
differentiated social desirability bias created by such beliefs. An attachment
to the law index based on survey data shows that societies like
Argentina and Mexico, where corruption tends to be high, respondents
express higher levels of attachment to the law and are more favorable
to punishment of acts of transgression, whereas in Uruguay, where
corruption is low, respondents are more tolerant of such acts and less
likely to consider them as forms of corruption. This paradox is explained
by the different concepts of corruption that these societies have
and the consequent corresponding effect of social desirability bias.
The paper relies on original survey data designed and conducted by
the authors. |
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