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- Perspetivas geracionais da corrupção em Portugal: uma visão comparada entre jovens e senioresPublication . Clemente, Felippe; Sousa, Luis de
- Knowledge of official ethical standards and tolerance towards corruption: An exploratory studyPublication . Sousa, Luis de; Clemente, Felippe; Calca, PatríciaCorruption is often defined as a deviant conduct from established legal and formal norms and expected ways of behaving in the exercise of official duties and the discharge of official responsibilities. Readiness to tolerate corruption will hinge primarily upon the evaluator’s understanding of what those ethical standards are. This means that citizens’ willingness to accept corruption as something “normal” to the functioning of democracy or “beneficial” to economic development is likely to be affected by how knowledgeable they are about the ethical standards of governing public office. Such knowledge can be instilled by academic and experiential learning. So, we question to what extent citizens’ knowledge of official ethical standards affect their tolerance towards corruption? Based on new individual level data collected from six focus groups conducted in Portugal, we show a possible negative association between the appropriate knowledge of official ethical standards and tolerance towards corruption. The results are exploratory, but sufficiently interesting to test our hypothesis with a larger sample.
- Exposição à corrupção e valores democráticos: dois perfis sociaisPublication . Rego, Raquel; Clemente, Felippe; Sousa, Luis de
- Corrupção: perceções, atitudes e práticas em PortugalPublication . Clemente, Felippe; Sousa, Luis de; Magalhães, Pedro C.
- Corrupção e Crise económica: percepções dos portugueses sobre corrupção [Policy Brief]Publication . Sousa, Luis de; Magalhães, Pedro C.; Clemente, Felippe
- IntroduçãoPublication . Clemente, Felippe; Sousa, Luis de; Magalhães, Pedro C.
- Opportunities and challenges of contemporary corruption research: An interview with Donatella Della PortaPublication . Clemente, Felippe; Sousa, Luis de; Ghica, Luciana AlexandraThis is an edited and revised version of an interview recorded in September 2021, which served as closing remarks for the 3rd edition of the Research Methods School on Corruption and Anti-Corruption Analysis (CORAN), Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (Portugal), 27-30 September 2021. The event was organized jointly with the Centre for International Cooperation and Development Studies (IDC) of the University of Bucharest, as part of the 7th edition of the International Interdisciplinary Conference of Political Research SCOPE: Science of Politics. The notes and specific references were added to support especially younger researchers who may not be very familiar with the field or with certain past events.
- A Scoping Review on Perception-Based Definitions and Measurements of CorruptionPublication . Gouvêa Maciel, G.; Magalhães, Pedro C.; Sousa, Luis de; Pinto, Isabel R.; Clemente, FelippeStudies on perceptions of corruption have grown in recent years but are still struggling with several conceptual and measurement issues. This scoping review provides an analysis of the peer-reviewed literature on perception-based corruption. From a total of 1,374 articles surveyed, ninety ultimately met inclusion criteria. We found two main quantifiable trends when exploring our sample: publications in high-impact journals were slow in addressing perception-based corruption, and perceptions of corruption are of interest not only to political science and sociology but to other disciplinary traditions. In more qualitative terms, we observe that the explicit or implicit definitions of “corruption” behind these studies tend to fall into two categories: corruption as a “Deviant Process” or as a “Deviant Outcome,” while measurements can be typified in a two-dimensional scheme: “Sociotropic” vs. “Egocentric” and “Generic” vs. “Specific.” Most measurement approaches surveyed tend to use a “deviant process” definition, whereas the measurement of corruption as a “deviant outcome” still lacks development. This might represent a challenge for future research focusing on the social understanding of corruption in various contexts (administrative, organizational, political, economic, legal, etc.).
- Democratic values, relative deprivation, political trust, and the resilience of corruption in Portugal: a survey analysisPublication . Clemente, Felippe; Sousa, Luis deCorruption is commonly defined as deviant behaviour that strays from established legal and formal norms, as well as expected conduct when fulfilling official duties and responsibilities. It is essential to stress that the acceptance or condemnation of such behaviour hinges primarily on how well evaluators comprehend these standards. This implies that citizens’ assessments of the impact of corruption on their lives and society are heavily influenced by the values they hold dear within a democracy and their trust in democratic institutions to uphold and safeguard those values. Based on recently collected survey data, we demonstrate that citizens’ adher ence to process-oriented democratic values, their feeling of relative deprivation and their level of political trust significantly affect their egocentric perceptions of the effects of corruption and tolerance towards corruption. Furthermore, we find that control variables, such as self-reported experiences of corruption, age, education, income, and exposure to social media, also exert a significant influence on our de pendent variables. By linking citizens’ egocentric perceived corruption effects and intolerance towards corruption with their procedural notion of democracy, feeling of relative deprivation and political trust, this study contributes to the understanding of the resilience of this intricate phenomenon in democratic societies.
- Percepção da corrupção em tempos de pandemia: breve análise a partir do pré-teste à população portuguesaPublication . Clemente, Felippe; Grilo, Felipe; Sousa, Luis de