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This chapter analyzes political representatives’ perceptions of the causes of political indifference and mistrust in parties. The causes of mistrust have been divided into internal and external factors and it has been found that MPs tend to reveal that mistrust in parties is due particularly to internal factors in the parties themselves, particularly in cases of corruption. Despite this, MPs, especially representatives of the PP (People’s Party) and the PSOE (Spanish Workers’ Socialist Party), tend to minimize the scope of corruption in Spain compared to the perception of citizens. Furthermore, those MPs with more experience and leadership attribute the least importance to internal and external factors.
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Notes
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The variable takes the value of 0 for individuals who do not declare having had a known profession before entering politics (students and inactive individuals).
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For the models presented in Table 9.3, logarithms of the ideological gaps were taken, since the distribution of the original variable had a very defined negative asymmetry.
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Organic Law (OL) 8/2007, of 4th July, on the financing of political parties. This law was reformed in some aspects by the OL 5/2012, of 22nd October and by the OL 3/2015, of 30th March.
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Jaime-Castillo, A.M., Bartolomé, E., Martínez-Cousinou, G. (2018). Political Disaffection. In: Coller, X., Jaime-Castillo, A., Mota, F. (eds) Political Power in Spain. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63826-3_9
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