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The Role of Trust in Political Corruption: Outline of the Subject
The Role of Trust in Political Corruption: Outline of the Subject

Author(s): Agnieszka Turska-Kawa
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Government/Political systems, Political behavior, Political psychology, Politics and society
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: political corruption; political trust; political behaviors

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to analyze the relations between political trust and one of the greatest problems of the public domain: political corruption. It seems obvious that corrupt behaviors revealed in the public space are supposed to undermine citizens’ political trust. This thesis has been empirically verified many times. The author of the paper presents the cause and effect model with institutional trust as the independent variable. The article is an attempt to analyze the possible directions of its influence on political corrupt behaviors, assuming political trust to be the starting point, not the consequence, of the “social disease” occurring in the public domain.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 61-75
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English