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Vote-Buying and Reciprocity [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 While vote-buying is common, little is known about how politicians determine who to target. We argue that vote-buying can be sustained by an internalized norm of reciprocity. Receiving money engenders feelings of obligation. Combining survey data on vote-buying with an experiment-based measure of reciprocity, we show that politicians target reciprocal ...
Finan, Frederico S., Schechter, Laura
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Vote buying and redistribution
Public Choice, 2022 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.
Guerra, Alice, Justesen, Mogens K.
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Vote Buying in Argentina [PDF]
Latin American Research Review, 2004 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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Vote Buying: General Elections [PDF]
Journal of Political Economy, 2008 We examine the consequences of vote buying, assuming this practice were allowed and free of stigma. Two parties compete in a binary election and may purchase votes in a sequential bidding game via up‐front binding payments and/or campaign promises (platforms) that are contingent on the outcome of the election.
Eddie Dekel +2 more
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Vote buying revisited : implications for receipt-freeness [PDF]
, 2007 WISSec ...
Jonker, H.L., Pieters, W.
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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 +2 more
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 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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Latin American Research Review, 2022 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? Existing research claims that remittances bolster the political autonomy of recipients, allowing them to escape clientelistic networks and making them less ...
González-Ocantos, Ezequiel +2 more
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Buying Votes and International Organizations [PDF]
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Axel Dreher, James Raymond Vreeland
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