Do Liberals Play Nice? The Effects of Party and Political Ideology in Public Goods and Trust Games

Abstract

We test whether party affiliation or ideological leanings influence subjects' behavior in public goods experiments and trust games. In general, party is unrelated to behavior, and ideology is not related to contributions in the public goods experiment. However, there is some evidence that self-described liberals are both more trusting and more trustworthy.

Citation

Anderson, L.R., Mellor, J.M. and Milyo, J. (2005), "Do Liberals Play Nice? The Effects of Party and Political Ideology in Public Goods and Trust Games", Morgan, J. (Ed.) Experimental and Behavorial Economics (Advances in Applied Microeconomics, Vol. 13), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 107-131. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0278-0984(05)13005-3