TY - JOUR
T1 - Politics, Corruption, and Political Culture
T2 - A View from the State Legislature
AU - Peters, John G.
AU - Welch, Susan
PY - 1978/7
Y1 - 1978/7
N2 - Using as a data base 441 American state legislators, the authors explore the relationship of state political cultures to legislative attitudes toward corruption. Three measures of corruption are exammed: perception of acts as being corrupt, support for other officials engaged in corrupt acts, and perceived frequency of corruption m one's own state legislature. After controlling for other factors thought to be important in explaining political corruption, the authors find that compared to other legislators, legislators from states identified as “moralistic” are less tolerant of corruption and perceive that it is lower in frequency.
AB - Using as a data base 441 American state legislators, the authors explore the relationship of state political cultures to legislative attitudes toward corruption. Three measures of corruption are exammed: perception of acts as being corrupt, support for other officials engaged in corrupt acts, and perceived frequency of corruption m one's own state legislature. After controlling for other factors thought to be important in explaining political corruption, the authors find that compared to other legislators, legislators from states identified as “moralistic” are less tolerant of corruption and perceive that it is lower in frequency.
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U2 - 10.1177/1532673X7800600305
DO - 10.1177/1532673X7800600305
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84970246022
SN - 1532-673X
VL - 6
SP - 345
EP - 356
JO - American Politics Research
JF - American Politics Research
IS - 3
ER -