“…We further connect to research on promise keeping in one-shot games (Charness and Dufwenberg, 2006;Vanberg, 2008;Geng et al, 2011;Corazzini et al, 2014;Ederer and Stremitzer, 2017;Casella et al, 2018;Born, 2020;Ederer and Schneider, 2020). While these studies have shown that individuals are willing to keep their promises, when the possibility of punishment is missing 3 , we provide novel evidence that candidates are even willing to keep their promises, when voters do not learn about promise keeping.…”