Arbeitspapier
Vote-buying and reciprocity
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.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5965
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
- Subject
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vote-buying
reciprocity
redistributive politics
voting
social preferences
Wahl
Wahlverhalten
Politische Ethik
Korruption
Austauschtheorie (Soziologie)
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Finan, Frederico S.
Schechter, Laura
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2011
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-201110053391
- Last update
- 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Finan, Frederico S.
- Schechter, Laura
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2011
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