The Limited Consequences of Broken Campaign Promises: Experimental Evidence from the United States and Israel

• In Event: On Motivated Reasoning

Brief Overview

Campaign promises are considered critical in the electoral process. However, in line with the motivated reasoning literature, we find that partisans in the U.S. and Israel are reluctant to sanction ingroup politicians for breaking their word.

Authors

• Alon Zoizner, University of Haifa

• Eran Amsalem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem