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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
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Groceries for Votes: The Electoral Returns of Vote Buying

The Journal of Politics, 2019
Despite the prevalence of vote buying in many developing democracies, the evidence of its persuasive effects is very limited.
FRANCISCO Cantú
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Logrolling, Earmarking, and Vote Buying

Philosophia, 2016
In 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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Does Aid Buy Votes? [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
We use data for 143 developing countries during the period 1980-2004 to study empirically the relationship between multilateral aid (as proxied by IDA flows) and support for US foreign policy, as measured by voting alignment at the United Nations General Assembly.
Paolo Pinotti, Riccardo Settimo
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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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Vote Buying and the Education of a Society

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006
Various 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 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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Vote buying in a stylized setting

Public Choice, 1986
As 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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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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