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Antecedents of corruption perception in Guyana

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Regardless of its utility as a measure of actual corruption, perceived corruption is related to many political attitudes and other variables which makes it an important phenomenon to understand. This paper explores demographic variables, ideological orientations, socioeconomic status, interpersonal trust, political attitudes and feelings of resentment as explanations for corruption perception with response styles controlled within a structural equation modelling framework using survey data collected in Guyana where corruption is salient and thought to be pervasive. It finds that the categories of variables jointly explain 31.5% of the variance in corruption perception and that there is explanatory utility for each category of variables evaluated except socioeconomic status with demographics and ideological orientations accounting for the largest changes in explained variance. It also finds that political cynicism attenuates an initial effect of interpersonal trust and concludes that ethnicity appears to function as partisan orientation in its relationship with corruption perception.
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Corruption perception, political cynicism, trust, response styles, Guyana, RESPONSE STYLES, POLITICAL CORRUPTION, PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS, PARTISAN, FAIRNESS, IMPACT, TRUST

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Thomas, Troy D., et al. “Antecedents of Corruption Perception in Guyana.” JOURNAL OF POLITICS IN LATIN AMERICA, vol. 16, no. 2, 2024, pp. 174–99, doi:10.1177/1866802x241235195.
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Thomas, T. D., Abts, K., & Stroeken, K. (2024). Antecedents of corruption perception in Guyana. JOURNAL OF POLITICS IN LATIN AMERICA, 16(2), 174–199. https://doi.org/10.1177/1866802x241235195
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Thomas, Troy D., Koen Abts, and Koenraad Stroeken. 2024. “Antecedents of Corruption Perception in Guyana.” JOURNAL OF POLITICS IN LATIN AMERICA 16 (2): 174–99. https://doi.org/10.1177/1866802x241235195.
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Thomas, Troy D., Koen Abts, and Koenraad Stroeken. 2024. “Antecedents of Corruption Perception in Guyana.” JOURNAL OF POLITICS IN LATIN AMERICA 16 (2): 174–199. doi:10.1177/1866802x241235195.
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Thomas TD, Abts K, Stroeken K. Antecedents of corruption perception in Guyana. JOURNAL OF POLITICS IN LATIN AMERICA. 2024;16(2):174–99.
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T. D. Thomas, K. Abts, and K. Stroeken, “Antecedents of corruption perception in Guyana,” JOURNAL OF POLITICS IN LATIN AMERICA, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 174–199, 2024.
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