15:00 - 16:40
PS9
Room:
Room: Club D
Panel Session 9
Solveig Bjørkholt - Quantifying structure: How can we observe depoliticization through international standards?
Maria Uttenthal - How do citizens trust? The heterogeneity of trust attitudes in developed democracies
Laura Bronner, Drew Dimmery - A statistical framework for analyzing the effects of content moderation and toxicity on readers’ engagement with online comments
Lion Behrens - Detecting Unbalanced Election Fraud Approaches From Undervoting Irregularities
Felipe Torres - Measuring Corruption using Randomise Item Response Technique
Measuring Corruption using Randomise Item Response Technique
PS9-5
Presented by: Felipe Torres
Felipe TorresRaymond Duch
University of Oxford
The following study reports the results of a Randomised Item Response Technique (RIRT), which is an indirect questioning technique that combines Randomise Response with Item Response Theory. This study provides evidence the following: 1) Both population and group estimates of the prevalence of corrupt behaviour that citizens encounter when they interact with their local government; 2) Validates the results of the RIRT against the conventional direct questioning for the same set of sensitive questions; 3) Finally, it reports individual-level estimates of the latent trait of corrupt behaviour and compare them against individual-level estimates obtained from a direct questioning technique.