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Vote-Buying and Reciprocity

SSRN Electronic Journal
2011
  • 9
    Citations
  • 3,901
    Usage
  • 14
    Captures
  • 0
    Mentions
  • 0
    Social Media
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Metrics Details

  • Citations
    9
    • Citation Indexes
      5
    • Policy Citations
      4
      • 4
  • Usage
    3,901
    • Abstract Views
      3,658
    • Downloads
      243
  • Captures
    14
  • Ratings
    • Download Rank
      252,264

Article Description

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 ndings highlight the importance of social preferences in determining political behavior.

Bibliographic Details

Frederico Finan; Laura Schechter

Elsevier BV

vote-buying; reciprocity; paraguay; experiment; social preference; elections; corruption

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