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How does the presence of a large group of remittance recipients in the electorate affect the way political parties in Latin America plan their vote-buying operations during electoral campaigns?
Ezequiel González-Ocantos +2 more
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Vote buying and redistribution
AbstractVote buying is a form of political clientelism involving pre-electoral transfers of money or material benefits from candidates to voters. Despite the presence of secret ballots, vote buying remains a pervasive phenomenon during elections in developing countries.
Alice Guerra, Mogens K Justesen
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Vote Buying in Argentina [PDF]
We analyze vote buying in Argentina—the payment by political parties of minor benefits (food, clothing, cash) to citizens in exchange for their votes. How widespread is vote buying in Argentina, and what is the profile of the typical vote "seller"? Did the shift toward a neoliberal economic model in the 1990s increase or reduce vote buying?
Valeria Brusco +2 more
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Institutional Performance and Vote Buying in India. [PDF]
Inefficient and corrupt institutions provide an incentive for citizens to focus on short causal chains, which prize instant benefits from direct, clientelist exchanges over the promise of uncertain and distant programmatic rewards. Drawing on a tightly controlled comparison arising from the bifurcation of a state within the Indian federal system into ...
Heath O, Tillin L.
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Vote-buying is a contentious issue in contemporary discourse on the sustainability of democratic development in Nigeria. This menace is gradually crippling electoral processes and undermining the efforts of the electoral umpire in conducting competitive,
Ejikeme Jombo Nwagwu +3 more
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Vote-Buying and Reciprocity [PDF]
Frederico Finan, Laura Schechter
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Vote-buying is widely used by parties in developing countries to influence the outcome of elections. We examine the impact of vote-buying on growth. We consider a model with a poverty trap where redistribution can promote growth. We show that vote-buying contributes to the persistence of poverty as taxed wealthy people buy votes from poor people.
Gersbach, Hans, Mühe, Felix
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Political Public Relations as a Tool for Combating Vote buying in Nigeria for Development Purposes
The main aim of the study is to identify political public relations approaches that can be applied by the government and other bodies responsible for conducting elections in Nigeria to mitigate and eliminate vote buying.
Jacob Gbaden Chiakaan +3 more
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Considering that the number of college student beginner voters in the Indonesian 2019 General Election has experienced a drastic increase, this research aims to determine the effect of political trust and vote-buying on college students’ political ...
Muhammad Arief Sumantri +1 more
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