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CMIST Afternoon Seminar: Corruption and preferences for decentralisation

The HBS builiding
Dates:8 March 2016
Times:16:00 - 17:30
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:School of Social Sciences
Speaker:Dr Sergi Pardos
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Abstract: Existing studies on individual preferences for decentralization focus on collective identity, economic considerations, and party politics as explanations of support for decentralization. This paper aims at contributing to this literature by showing that preferences for fiscal and political decentralization are also driven by concern about the quality of government in the face of corruption.

Using a principal-agent framework of analysis, we find that exposure to an exogenous corruption prime decreases trust in potentially corrupt national politicians, and therefore influences preferences on the territorial organization of the state and its tax system. We test our argument using a vignette design in a survey experiment in Spain and study the causal mechanism using mediation analysis. We validate our finding externally by analyzing the relationship between corruption perception and support for decentralization using data from 29 countries in the European Values Study. Our findings have important implications for research on demands for decentralization.

Co-author: Theresa Kuhn, from the University of Amsterdam

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Tea/coffee will be available from 3.45.

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Dr Sergi Pardos

Role: Fellow in Politics

Organisation: Merton College, University of Oxford

  • https://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-sergi-pardos-prado

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