{"id":3762,"date":"2011-09-20T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=3762"},"modified":"2011-09-19T19:09:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T23:09:58","slug":"vote-buying-and-reciprocity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/3762","title":{"rendered":"Vote Buying and Reciprocity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the title of a new <a title=\"Finan and Schechter (NBER, 2011)\" href=\"http:\/\/papers.nber.org\/papers\/w17411\" target=\"_blank\">working paper<\/a> by Fred Finan and Laura Schechter:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">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.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This also reminded me of a <a title=\"The Price of a Vote\" href=\"http:\/\/people.tamu.edu\/~kdionne\/MGAPE\/papers\/conroy-krutz_01\" target=\"_blank\">presentation<\/a> by Jeff Conroy-Krutz at last spring&#8217;s meeting of the <a title=\"Midwest Group on African Political Economy\" href=\"http:\/\/people.tamu.edu\/~kdionne\/MGAPE\/\" target=\"_blank\">Midwest Group on African Political Economy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff&#8217;s presentation was just the basis of a broader research project in which he is going to look at both the supply and demand of votes in an African context, but I think this type of big-think, &#8220;industrial organization&#8221; approach to vote buying is extremely interesting and could generate a number of hypotheses to be further tested with experimental data like Finan and Schechter&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the title of a new working paper by Fred Finan and Laura Schechter: While vote-buying is common, little is known about how politicians determine<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/3762\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vote Buying and Reciprocity<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,55,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-economics","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-YG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3762"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3772,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762\/revisions\/3772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}