Can campaign promises change voter behavior, even where clientelism and vote buying are pervasive? We elicit …

This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that … loving, less loss averse, and more impatient after being primed with Confucianism, whereas Taiwanese subjects became … significantly less present-based and were inclined to be more trustworthy after being primed by Confucianism. Combining the evidence …

This study argues that economic vulnerability causes citizens to participate in clientelism, a phenomenon with various … typically have more resources for clientelism. Findings are observed not only during the election campaign, but also a full year …

We study the causes and consequences of patronage in Brazilian cities since the country's re-democratization. We test … patronage for public finances. Our data consist of the universe of public sector employees merged with their party affiliations …, and a dynamic regression discontinuity design is applied to disentangle patronage from the growing political participation …