The Public Understanding of Political Integrity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Jonathan Rose

      Pages 1-18

3. Foundations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Latent Variables: Measures and Implications

      • Jonathan Rose

      Pages 21-45

   3. Process Performance and Political Trust: Structural Models

      • Jonathan Rose

      Pages 46-67

4. Causes of Perceptions of Public Probity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-70

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   2. Partisan Co-alignment and Perceptions of Public Probity

      • Jonathan Rose

      Pages 71-88

   3. ‘Why We Hate Politics’? The Impact of Negative Political Events upon Political Perceptions of Public Probity

      • Jonathan Rose

      Pages 89-106

   4. Perceptions of Public Probity after ‘MPs’ Expenses’: The Impact of the Local MP’s Performance

      • Jonathan Rose

      Pages 107-121

   5. Conclusion: Public Probity

      • Jonathan Rose

      Pages 122-131

5. Back Matter

   Pages 132-172

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Through detailed analyses of major and newly available datasets, this study examines the utility of a public probity-focused approach to understanding citizen disaffection with politicians. It shows that perceptions of public probity are coherent, substantively meaningful, responsive, and, most importantly, that they do matter.

• Affect
• perception
• politics
• trust
• British Politics
• democracy

• School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, UK

  Jonathan Rose

Jonathan Rose is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK, specialising in political probity and corruption. He is currently working on an ESRC/Hong Kong Research Grants Council funded project as part of an international team of researchers investigating the state of political integrity in the UK, Hong Kong and China.

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