Political parties increasingly rely on self-regulation to promote ethical standards in office. The adoption of ethics self-regulation and its ability to induce change is likely to be a function of the responses from politicians and voters. Without external enforcement mechanisms, compliance requires support from legislators. In turn, if voters perceive self-regulation as cheap talk, officials have fewer incenti...
Political ethics strengthen the bonds of trust between citizens and their representatives, and therefore matter to the overall quality of democracy. Over the past three decades levels of trust in traditional democratic institutions—political parties, parliaments, and governments—have fallen. Concern to restore political trust has prompted countries to engage in a series of reforms to clarify what ethical standa...
Este Informe de investigación ofrece un análisis comparativo de las percepciones de la corrupción en España (con especial atención a la Comunitat Valenciana) y Portugal, a partir de los datos de una batería de preguntas replicadas en dos encuestas nacionales. A pesar de las trayectorias políticas paralelas en el contexto de la tercera ola de democratización, las similitudes socioculturales y la proximidad geogr...