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Electoral Manipulation as Bureaucratic Control
American Journal of Political Science, 2013Bureaucratic compliance is often crucial for political survival, yet eliciting that compliance in weakly institutionalized environments requires that political principals convince agents that their hold on power is secure. We provide a formal model to show that electoral manipulation can help to solve this agency problem. By influencing beliefs about a
Scott Gehlbach, Alberto Simpser
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Linkage to the West and Electoral Manipulation
Political Studies Review, 2020The relationship between linkage to the West and the survival of political regimes has gained increasing attention in recent years. Despite this attention, one aspect of this linkage remains poorly understood, and that is the effect of linkage to the West on electoral manipulation.
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Does electoral fraud spread? The expansion of electoral manipulation in Russia
Post-Soviet Affairs, 2016AbstractIn this paper, we argue that the occurrence of electoral manipulation in Russia has been driven, in part, by diffusion across neighboring raions through emulation, incentives, and networks. Presumably, in Putin’s Russia all local authorities have some incentives to deliver a high number of votes to United Russia, the “party of power”.
Robert G. Moser, Allison C. White
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Electoral manipulation weakens Zimbabwe’s opposition
Emerald Expert Briefings, 2023Significance The episode is being widely interpreted as a ploy by the ruling ZANU-PF party to engineer a two-thirds parliamentary majority, which it failed to secure in the August 2023 elections. Impacts CCC has been unable to dislodge Tshabangu from the leadership ...
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Does Electoral Manipulation Vary?
The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 2018Electoral manipulation is committed both during hotly contested elections as well as quite predictable ones. Comparative scholarship has sought to understand this variation, acknowledging that electoral manipulation can serve an informational as well as an instrumental role, but has not distinguished when, if ever, electoral manipulation is more likely
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Partisan Poll Watchers and Electoral Manipulation
American Political Science Review, 2019How do parties protect themselves from electoral manipulation? To answer this question, we study the drivers of polling station party representatives’ presence and their impact on electoral outcomes in an environment where electoral irregularities are common.
SERGIO J. ASCENCIO, MIGUEL R. RUEDA
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Office Insecurity and Electoral Manipulation
The Journal of Politics, 2016Why do governments manipulate elections at varying levels? This paper argues that variation in electoral manipulation can in part be explained by the fundamental trade-off between an incumbent’s desire to signal his popularity and his risk of losing elections.
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Slides for Manipulated Electorates and Information Aggregation
2020These are presentation slides for the paper "Manipulated Electorates and Information Aggregation"
Mehmet Ekmekci, Stephan Lauermann
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