Corrupción política y movilización electoral de los gerontoinmigrantes europeos en las municipales de 2007

Abstract

Political corruption is a key theoretical issue regarding the quality of democracy. And it was a main theme from the empirical point of view during the Spanish local elections held on May 2007. This paper focuses upon the electoral behaviour of foreign European retirees on that occasion and aims to know whether and to what extent corruption mobilized those citizens. Data confirm that there is a relationship between public charges of political corruption and electoral mobilization, but this is not enough as to affect election results. The paper analyses MIRES3i survey results and basic data provided by both the electoral census and the population census.