A Comparative Analysis of How Corruption Erodes Institutional Trust

Eric C. C. Chang

《Taiwan Journal of Democracy》 9卷1期 (2013/07) Pp. 73-92

並列摘要

This essay makes use of the recent Asian Barometer data and provides a comparative analysis of how corruption undermines institutional trust in Asian democracies. In light of recent scrutiny of the validity of perception-based corruption indicators, the essay reexamines the previous 2006 study by Chang and Chu, with an alternative measurement of corruption based on respondents' direct experiences.In so doing, the essay seeks to more definitively establish the association between corruption and institutional trust-a relationship with profound consequences for democratic consolidation in new Asian democracies. Importantly, unlike Chang and Chu's ”Corruption and Trust: Exceptionalism in Asian Democracies?” which reports a universal effect of corruption on institutional trust across all Asian countries, this essay suggests that corruption has less effect on institutional trust in countries where corruption networks are structuralized and predictable.

並列關鍵字

Corruption ； institutional trust ； democratization ； East Asian democracies

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