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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
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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
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Vote buying and campaign promises
Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017Abstract 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, Răzvan Vlaicu
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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.
Lachlan Montgomery Umbers
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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.
Lachlan Montgomery Umbers
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Logrolling, Earmarking, and Vote Buying
Philosophia (United States), 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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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
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Ying Chen, Jan Zápal
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Ying Chen, Jan Zápal
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Vote-buying, anti-corruption campaigns, and identity in African elections
World Development, 2022 The literature on democracies in the developing world paints a picture of rampant vote buying. A growing research field has shed light on how politicians decide whom to target, how individuals view vote buying, and the consequences of such practices. Yet,
Kristen Kao, Lise Rakner
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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.
Peter Sandholt Jensen, Mogens K Justesen
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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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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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Vote Buying and the Education of a Society
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006Various studies provide evidence that buying of votes is a widespread instrument of parties in developing countries to influence the outcome of elections. In this paper we examine whether democratic societies which hold votes on educational enhancing redistribution proposals can escape poverty traps if vote buying is possible.
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Vote buying in a stylized setting
Public Choice, 1986As we noted in the introduction, we do not propose to discuss possible implications for the real world of democratic politics that may be drawn from the highly stylized models of vote buying that we have analyzed in this paper. To the extent that economic, legal, or moral thresholds prevent the emergence of the purchase and sale of votes among persons ...
James M. Buchanan, Dwight R. Lee
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