How mates and grey corruption rig the political game

  • Written by: Cameron Murray, Research Fellow - Henry Halloran Trust, University of Sydney
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If you were a powerful politician, there is a good chance you would make decisions that favour your mates.

How do we know you might behave in this way? We set up a computer game to see whether everyday people get seduced into favouring their mates at the expense of others.

The experiment involved over 600 university students....

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