Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 26th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview General Session Author(s) Marius Profiroiu Bucharest University of Economic Studies Bucharest Romania Porumbescu Gregory, Title When does Transparency mobilize Citizens against Corruption? File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Marius Profiroiu Abstract Despite the intuitive nature of the relationship between transparency and corruption, the impact of transparency on corruption in transitional contexts is mixed. Attempts to understand variation in the impact of transparency on corruption typically focus upon the role of institutions in lending external stakeholders such as citizens, influence over government. Consequently, such efforts generally focus on institutional deficiencies that contribute to breakdowns in accountability. Interestingly, however, despite the important role theory assigns to citizens in translating greater transparency to reductions in corruption, there have been few empirical attempts to identify factors influencing citizens’ proclivity to call their government to account. Rather, much of our understanding of corruption takes the role of citizens for granted and tacitly assumes their responses to corruption are invariant. This is problematic for the reason that it points to biased and incomplete understanding of the mechanisms linking transparency to corruption and, as a result. This study intends to address this gap in the literature by examining how citizens’ responses to corruption are shaped by the valence of the information they are exposed to. Specifically, this study investigates how organizational performance shapes citizen responses to corruption. In this study, we focus on organizational performance prior to the act of corruption being committed, as well as following the act of corruption. Our intention is to determine whether citizens are more forgiving of corruption in climates of high performance. Keywords: Transparency, Citizens, Government, Corruption, Performance, Accountability
