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| Title: | | Vote-buying and reciprocity  |
| Authors: | | Finan, Frederico S. Schechter, Laura |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion paper series // Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 5965 |
| Abstract: | | While vote-buying is common, little is known about how politicians determine who to target. We argue that vote-buying can be sustained by an internalized norm of reciprocity. Receiving money engenders feelings of obligation. Combining survey data on vote-buying with an experiment-based measure of reciprocity, we show that politicians target reciprocal individuals. Overall, our findings highlight the importance of social preferences in determining political behavior. |
| Subjects: | | vote-buying reciprocity redistributive politics voting social preferences |
| JEL: | | H0 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201110053391 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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