Condoning postwar corruption

How legacies of war prevent democratic accountability in contemporary Southeast Europe

Bibliographic Data

ID7754286
AuthorsChristophe Lesschaeve (0000-0002-0632-6760, University of Luxembourg, corresponding author), Josip Glaurdić (0000-0001-6904-9986, University of Luxembourg)
Year2022
Volume38
Issue2
Pages188-207
Publication date2022-04-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEast European Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2159-9165 • E-ISSN: 2159-9173
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21599165.2021.1965577
OpenAlexW3193883378
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited66

Do voters in postwar societies punish corrupt politicians? Or are their electoral preferences distorted by their own or the candidates' war pasts? We answer these questions by analysing the results of an experiment embedded in a survey of over seven thousand respondents from the countries of Southeast Europe that experienced armed conflict since the 1990s. Our findings show that voters in this region punish corruption harshly, yet are more likely to ignore it for politicians with a military service record. This tendency is, however, conditioned by voters' partisanship and sense of war grievance

Accountability · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Language change · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Political Conflict and Governance · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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