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Self-Regulation of Ethical Behavior: The Case of Political Parties and Parliament in Spain.

dc.contributor.authorVilloria, Manuel
dc.contributor.authorCruz-Rubio, César
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-07T15:16:17Z
dc.date.available2024-02-07T15:16:17Z
dc.date.issued2022-06-10
dc.identifier.citationManuel Villoria & Cesar N. Cruz-Rubio (2022) Self-Regulation of Ethical Behavior: The Case of Political Parties and Parliament in Spain, Public Integrity, DOI: 10.1080/10999922.2022.2075631es
dc.identifier.issnISSN: 1099-9922 Online ISSN: 1558-0989
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10115/29938
dc.description.abstractSpanish politicians have attempted to respond to the growing concern about declining trust in representative institutions through ethical selfregulation and meta-regulation instruments. This article focuses on a study of Parliament and the six major political parties with parliamentary representation. It attempts to explain the reasons for adopting these new regulations and proceeds with an in-depth analysis of the existing rules, oversight, and enforcement methods in Parliament and within party organizations. As a result of European pressure, Spanish Parliament has developed a new code of ethics, but it has not strengthened internal procedures and mechanisms to bring them into compliance with the standing rules. Furthermore, political parties have developed an entire set of basic compliance measures influenced by the law on the criminal liability of legal persons. In both cases, oversight and enforcement are exceedingly weak. None of these measures has improved confidence in politicians in Spain. Two lessons can be learned. First is that without politicians’ commitment, ethical reforms do not work. Secondly, today’s new technologies, linked to a sociales
dc.language.isoenges
dc.publisherTaylor & Francises
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/*
dc.subjectPolitical ethics, self-regulation, meta-regulation, trust, Spaines
dc.titleSelf-Regulation of Ethical Behavior: The Case of Political Parties and Parliament in Spain.es
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlees
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/10999922.2022.2075631es
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