Political Corruption and Voter Turnout in China: The Effects of Perception, Experience, and Purchases

• In Event: Corruption, Crime, and Political Participation

Brief Overview

(1) Perceptions of corruption depress turnout by lowering interest in elections; (2) both corruption perceptions and experienced corruption raise people’s concern about democracy, thus depress turnout; (3) electoral corruption directly "buy" votes.

Author

• Chengyu Fu, Harvard University