Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, 217 O'Shaughnessy Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 (egonzal4@nd.edu). Chad Kiewiet de Jonge is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, 217 O'Shaughnessy Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 (ckiewiet@nd.edu). Carlos Meléndez is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, 217 O'Shaughnessy Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 (cmelend1@nd.edu). Javier Osorio is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, 217 O'Shaughnessy Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 (fosorioz@nd.edu). David W. Nickerson is Associate Professor of Political Science, 217 O'Shaughnessy Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 (dnickers@nd.edu).
Vote Buying and Social Desirability Bias: Experimental Evidence from Nicaragua
Article first published online: 14 OCT 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5907.2011.00540.x
© 2011, Midwest Political Science Association
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Gonzalez-Ocantos, E., de Jonge, C. K., Meléndez, C., Osorio, J. and Nickerson, D. W. (2012), Vote Buying and Social Desirability Bias: Experimental Evidence from Nicaragua. American Journal of Political Science, 56: 202–217. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-5907.2011.00540.x
The authors would like to thank Darren Davis, Fran Hagopian, Victoria Murillo, Anabella Expaña-Nájera, Simeon Nichter, Ana de la O, Maya Parson, Shannon Walsh, and Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro for generous feedback; Paul Avey, Robert Braithwaite, and Christopher Sullivan for their collaboration in designing the survey; and Borge y Asociados for fielding the survey. Nickerson would like to thank the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University for the time to write the article and the Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame for providing funds for the survey. Appendices and material for replicating the statistical analysis can be found at http://www.nd.edu/~dnickers.
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