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Universalism and Political Representation: Evidence from the Field / Benjamin Enke, Raymond Fisman, Luis Mota Freitas, Steven Sun.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Enke, Benjamin.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w31265.
- NBER working paper series no. w31265
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2023.
- Summary:
- This paper provides field evidence on the link between morals and political behavior. We develop a theory-guided real-stakes measure of each U.S. district's values on the universalism-particularism continuum, which reflects the degree to which charitable giving decreases as a function of social distance. District universalism is strongly predictive of local Democratic vote shares, legislators' roll-call voting, and the moral content of Congressional speeches. These results hold in both across- and within-party analyses. Overall, spatial heterogeneity in universalism is a substantially stronger predictor of geographic variation in political outcomes than traditional economic variables such as income or education.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 2023.
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