Journal
ECONOMETRICA
Volume 80, Issue 2, Pages 863-881Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA9035
Keywords
Vote-buying; reciprocity; Paraguay; experiment; social preference; elections; corruption
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- Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
- Russell Sage Foundation
- Delta Foundation
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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.
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