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Abstract
Can socioeconomic factors, experiences, or attitudes influence an individual’s perception of corruption in Croatia? The aim of the present study is to examine the various micro-level factors that determine corruption perceptions. Using original survey data collected between October 2012 and June 2013, this study found that selected socioeconomic factors and experiences had a significant influence on individual-level perceptions of corruption regarding the courts, police, political systems, politicians, and political parties. This exploratory research should be followed by more precise studies in order to examine whether these results can be generalized to other cases.
Notes
A selected entity refers to any of the court, police, political system, politicians, or political parties.
The sample was collected within a statistical margin of error of less than 0.025 at a 95% confidence level; 667 surveys were collected in person and 94 were collected online. Total sample size was 761. See Zakaria, Citation2013b.
The blank indicated either courts, police, political system, politicians, or political parties. There were separate questions for each entity.
It should be noted that the use of yes/no limits the sensitivity of individual-level perceptions of corruption, but the original study sought to gauge whether certain entities in society were perceived to be corrupt or not, not the degree of corruption.
For a complete percentage of individual-level responses, refer to the fourth section of the article.
It should be noted that perceptions of corruption could also impact individual confidence in government. This brings up the issue of reverse causality between the two variables, where high levels of perceived corruption can make individuals in society have less confidence in government.