Votes, Representatives and Moral Transgression: Are There Any Differences?

• In Event: Punishing Politicians? Scandals, Conspiracies, and Moral Judgments

Brief Overview

We investigate if voters and elected elites punish moral transgression equally hard. Through 4x2 experiments we show that voters and elites do not differ significantly in their punishment of transgressions.

Authors

• Stig Hebbelstrup Rye Rasmussen, Aarhus University

• Robert Klemmensen, University of Southern Denmark