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Logrolling, Earmarking, and Vote Buying
Philosophia, 2016In an important and provocative paper Christopher Freiman recently has defended the view that vote-buying should be legal in democratic societies. Freiman offers four arguments in support of this claim: that vote buying would be ex ante beneficial to both the buyers and sellers of votes; that voters enjoy wide discretion in how they use their votes ...
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Electoral Clientelism and Vote Buying
2020Political competition between parties to win electoral support is a distinguishing feature of democratic forms of government. Parties seek to attract electoral support with programmatic promises (public goods, services) for the benefit of all citizens as well as targeted redistribution in several countries, broadly termed as “clientelistic linkages ...
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Vote buying through public employment
2018The aim of this paper is to develop a theoretical model which would allow for the assessment of the effect that clientelism has on public sector efficiency. In short, the model shows that if the poorer citizens are ideologically mobile enough, opportunistic politicians can offer them better paying public employment in an attempt to sway their vote. The
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Philosophical Studies, 2018
Almost everyone would agree that vote buying is morally wrong, and that prohibitions on vote buying are morally justified. Yet, recently, several philosophers have argued that vote buying is morally permissible, and (in some cases) that it should be legally permitted.
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Almost everyone would agree that vote buying is morally wrong, and that prohibitions on vote buying are morally justified. Yet, recently, several philosophers have argued that vote buying is morally permissible, and (in some cases) that it should be legally permitted.
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Vote-buying, anti-corruption campaigns, and identity in African elections
World Development, 2022Kristen Kao, Ellen Lust
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