Survey experiment reveals political ideology shapes legal corruption assessments among civil servants, highlighting partisan bias in evaluating institutional integrity.
Key Points
To examine whether and how civil servants' political ideology influences their evaluation of legal corruption within government.
Conducted a survey experiment with a sample of more than 2,000 South Korean civil servants.
Evaluated responses across conditions where the governing chief executive and ruling party held political viewpoints that either aligned with or opposed those of the participants.
Civil servants systematically evaluated institutional legal corruption through the lens of their individual political ideology.
Civil servants showed significantly greater criticism toward government legal corruption when the ruling chief executive and political party held views opposing their own compared to when views aligned.