Vote-Buying and Reciprocity
Frederico Finan and
Laura Schechter
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Laura Schechter: University of Wisconsin-Madison
No 5965, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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.
Keywords: redistributive politics; reciprocity; vote-buying; voting; social preferences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2011-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cdm, nep-evo, nep-exp, nep-pol and nep-soc
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Published - published in: Econometrica, 2012, 80 (2), 863-881
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Journal Article: Vote‐Buying and Reciprocity (2012) 
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Working Paper: Vote-Buying and Reciprocity (2009) 
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