Open AccessModeling corruption perception effects on non-electoral participation in Morocco (2018-2019)
Author(s) -
Seyed Morteza Noei Baghban,
Mahmoudreza Rahbarqazi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
política y sociedad
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.136
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 1988-3129
pISSN - 1130-8001
DOI - 10.5209/poso.73306
Subject(s) - distrust , language change , perception , government (linguistics) , politics , respondent , political science , political economy , social psychology , development economics , economics , psychology , law , art , linguistics , philosophy , literature , neuroscience
Theoretical literature has two competing theories about the effects of corruption on society: the first group sees corruption as something that "Greases the Wheels of" the administrative and economic systems of countries and the second group calls it something that "Sands the Wheels" of those systems. This study examines the direct and indirect effects of corruption perceptions among Moroccan citizens on the non-electoral participation using the fifth wave data of the Arab barometer, assuming the first group's ideas. The fifth wave of this data was obtained in 2019-2018 and surveyed 2400 Moroccan citizens. Testing the hypothesis through the SEM indicate that, first, corruption perception has a direct positive and significant effect on the citizens' negative evaluation of the government performance and it increases the political distrust among citizens indirectly and significantly. Secondly, the results indicate that although perceptions of corruption by citizens do not directly have a significant effect on non-electoral participation, because all the mediating variables are significant, it can be argued that perceptions of corruption can have a positive impact on the expansion of non-electoral participation among citizens indirectly and it can happen through the variables of poor government performance and political distrust.