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Bolleyer, Nicole and Smirnova, Valeria (2017). Parliamentary ethics regulation and trust in European democracies. West Eur. Polit., 40 (6). S. 1218 - 1241. ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. ISSN 1743-9655

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Abstract

This article presents a three-dimensional conceptualisation of conflict of interest (COI) regulation directed towards assuring the impartial and unbiased decision-making of parliamentarians. It distinguishes and separately measures (based on a new dataset) COI strictness, sanctions and transparency and shows that they indeed constitute empirically separate dimensions of parliamentary ethics regimes adopted in European democracies. In order to illustrate the usefulness of these indices, the article then examines the relationship between the three indices and trust in national parliaments across 25 democracies. Unlike the Sanctions and Transparency indices, the COI Strictness Index (composed of strictness of rules and enforcement) has a significant and robust negative association with trust, which highlights the importance of disentangling different elements of COI regimes. While future research has to explore the causal relationships between COI regulation and trust, capturing the complexity of COI regimes in an unbiased fashion and thereby making them comparable across European democracies is an essential step towards doing so.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Bolleyer, Nicole UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Smirnova, Valeria UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-245881
DOI:	10.1080/01402382.2017.1290404
Journal or Publication Title:	West Eur. Polit.
Volume:	40
Number:	6
Page Range:	S. 1218 - 1241
Date:	2017
Publisher:	ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Place of Publication:	ABINGDON
ISSN:	1743-9655
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST; POLITICAL-PARTIES; MULTILEVEL; DISCLOSURE; RULES; WORLD Multiple languages Political Science Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/24588