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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 ...
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Limiting Vote-Buying and Treating
2022This 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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The Myth of Vote Buying in India
2018A common view is that in Indian elections parties, politicians, and voters are engaged in a quid-pro-quo in which citizens vote for a politician who offers them individual benefits. We find no evidence that voters exchange votes for benefits. In fact, ideology is a better predictor of the vote than the receipt of private or club goods.
Pradeep K. Chhibber, Rahul Verma
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
Over 90 percent of the world’s states currently select their national leaders through multi-party elections. However, in Africa the quality of elections still varies widely, ranging from elections plagued by violence and fraud to elections that are relatively “free and fair”. The literature on election fraud and integrity has identified several factors
Carolien Van Ham, Staffan I. Lindberg
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Over 90 percent of the world’s states currently select their national leaders through multi-party elections. However, in Africa the quality of elections still varies widely, ranging from elections plagued by violence and fraud to elections that are relatively “free and fair”. The literature on election fraud and integrity has identified several factors
Carolien Van Ham, Staffan I. Lindberg
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Implementation by Vote-Buying Mechanisms
American Economic Review, 2018Vote-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, 2017Electoral 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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Campaign Contributions and Vote Buying
2017Abstract There is a perception in the United States that campaign contributions equate with vote buying. Outright vote buying is illegal, but many citizens believe that loopholes in campaign contribution laws allow some to buy votes while perpetuating a façade of legitimacy.
Renee Prunty, Mandy Swartzendruber
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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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