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 re...

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Published in:	Econometrica 2012-03, Vol.80 (2), p.863-881
Main Authors:	Finan, Frederico, Schechter, Laura
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	2010 Algebra Applications Ballots Biology, psychology, social sciences corruption elections Exact sciences and technology experiment Insurance, economics, finance Internalization Mathematics Money Notes and Comments Number theory Paraguay Political behavior Political candidates Political elections Political ideologies Political parties Politicians Preferences Probability and statistics Reciprocity Sciences and techniques of general use social preference Statistics Studies Survey data Trade intermediaries Voter behavior Voter fraud Voter registration Voters Vote‐buying Voting Voting behavior Voting behaviour
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