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- Title
Vote-Buying and Reciprocity.
- Authors
Finan, Frederico; Schechter, Laura
- 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
PARAGUAY; VOTE buying; RECIPROCITY (Psychology); POLITICAL participation; DISTRIBUTORS (Commerce); PARAGUAYAN politics &; government; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Econometrica, 2012, Vol 80, Issue 2, p863
- ISSN
0012-9682
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3982/ECTA9035