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Vote-Buying and Reciprocity / Frederico Finan, Laura A. Schechter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Finan, Frederico.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w17411.
- NBER working paper series no. w17411
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2011.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- September 2011.
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