@article{Hahn_Cezar Bonatti_Martins_2022, title={Propensity to Corrupt Decisions of Pre-Candidates to the 2020 Brazilian Municipal Elections}, volume={14}, url={https://periodicos.ufv.br/apgs/article/view/11582}, DOI={10.21118/apgs.v14i1.11582}, abstractNote={<p>- <strong>Objective</strong>: to analyze the propensity for corrupt decision-making by pre-candidates for mayor and councilor, analyzing the 2020 Brazilian municipal elections.</p> <p><strong>- Theoretical framework:</strong> the study is theoretically based on the behavioral aspect of corruption, as deviant behavior, as well as intrinsic and extrinsic motivations to corruption, which are subdivided into: propensity to unethical decision-making, individual self-control, moral identity, guilt, and disengagement moral.</p> <p>- <strong>Methodology</strong>: A quantitative, exploratory, and descriptive study was conducted. In the operationalization, a cross-sectional survey was used, with the data collected through a structured questionnaire applied to a valid sample of 115 pre-candidates for the 2020 municipal elections. The data analysis used univariate and bivariate statistical techniques.</p> <p>- <strong>Results</strong>: (1) a sample have low propensity for unethical decision-making, high individual self-control, high moral identity, low guilt, and low propensity for moral disengagement; (2) there is a significant and positive association between the variables of individual self-control with guilt, moral disengagement; and moral identity is shown to be positively associated with moral disengagement, and moral disengagement positively with the variable of having a previous elective position or not.</p> <p>- <strong>Originality</strong>: The main contribution of the research is the analysis of the theme on municipal legislators and executors, in the version of pre-candidates.</p> <p><strong>- Theoretical and practical contributions</strong>: (1) low representation of women even as pre-candidates; (2) the sample considers the ‘other’ pre-willing politicians to make unethical decision-making, but not themselves; (3) sample with a high capacity for self-control, especially the part of the sample that did not have a previous elective position; (4) women have a higher degree of guilt than men, that is, they are less disposed to unethical decisions or corruption; (5) it can be said that the sample has a low propensity to deviant behaviors, that is, corruption.</p> <p> </p>}, number={1}, journal={Administração Pública e Gestão Social}, author={Hahn, Ivanete Schneider and Cezar Bonatti, Eliane Schleder and Martins, Anderson Antônio Mattos}, year={2022}, month={jan.} }