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Conceptualizing vote buying

Electoral Studies, 2014
This study investigates the concept of vote buying, with a particular focus on its usage in research on clientelism. Vote buying is often poorly defined. Such conceptual ambiguity may distort descriptive findings and threaten the validity of causal claims.
Simeon Nichter
exaly   +2 more sources

Poverty and vote buying: Survey-based evidence from Africa

Electoral Studies, 2014
Alongside the spread of democracy in the developing world, vote buying has emerged as an integral part of election campaigns. Yet, we know little about the causes of vote buying in young democracies. In this paper, we analyse the sources of vote buying in sub-Saharan African.
Peter Jensen
exaly   +4 more sources

Vote buying and campaign promises

Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017
Abstract What explains the wide variation across countries in the use of vote buying and policy promises during election campaigns? We address this question, and account for a number of stylized facts and apparent anomalies regarding vote buying, using a model in which parties cannot fully commit to campaign promises. We find that high vote buying is
Philip Keefer, Razvan Vlaicu
exaly   +2 more sources

Sequential Vote Buying

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
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Ying Chen, Jan Zápal
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Vote Buying

2019
Abstract Vote buying, the offer of particularistic rewards to voters in exchange for electoral support at the ballot box, is the form of clientelism that has been analyzed most extensively in previous studies. Chapter 7 documents the presence of this clientelistic strategy in East European elections.
Isabela Mares, Lauren E. Young
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Limiting Vote-Buying and Treating

2022
This chapter discusses political initiatives to introduce electoral reforms to limit vote-buying in France and Britain. Since vote-buying was an electoral irregularity financed by private resources, in both countries, the initial cleavage line over the introduction of these reforms pitted resource-endowed against resource-constrained candidates ...
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Vote buying II: legislatures and lobbying [PDF]

, 2006
We examine the consequences of lobbying and vote buying, assuming this practice were allowed and free of stigma. Two .lobbyists. compete for the votes of legislators by oþering up-front payments to the legislators in exchange for their votes. We analyze how the lobbyists.budget constraints and legislator preferences determine the winner and the ...
Eddie Dekel, Matthew O. Jackson, Asher Wolinksy   +2 more
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Implementation by Vote-Buying Mechanisms

American Economic Review, 2018
Vote-buying mechanisms allow agents to express any level of support for their preferred alternative at an increasing cost. Focusing on large societies with wealth inequality, we prove that the family of binary social choice rules implemented by well-behaved vote-buying mechanisms is indexed by a single parameter, which determines the importance ...
Jon X. Eguia, Dimitrios Xefteris
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Poverty, Partisanship and Vote Buying

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
Electoral contests in Latin America are often characterized by attempts by political parties to sway the outcome of elections using vote buying – a practice that seems to persist during elections throughout the region. Much of the literature on this subject focuses on how party machines use vote buying at election time and whether they target partisans
Justesen, Mogens Kamp, Manzetti, Luigi
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