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JOURNAL OF POLITICS
Volume 73, Issue 3, Pages 845-856Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0022381611000508
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Models of political participation have begun to incorporate actors who possess social preferences. However, these models have failed to take into account the potentially incongruent political goals of different social preference types. These goals are likely to play an important role in shaping political behavior. To examine the effect of distinct social preferences on political activity we conducted an experiment in which participants played five rounds of a modified dictator game (Andreoni and Miller 2002). We used the decisions in these games to determine their preference type and mapped these types to reported political activity. Our results show that subjects who were most interested in increasing total welfare in the dictator game were more likely to participate in politics than subjects with selfish preferences, whereas subjects most interested in reducing the difference between their own well-being and the well-being of others were no more likely to participate than subjects with selfish preferences.
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