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Reported Political Participation by Physicians vs Nonphysicians.

open access: yesJAMA
Zhong A   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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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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. In this paper, we analyse the sources of vote buying in sub-Saharan African.
Jensen, Peter Sandholt   +1 more
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Vote buying and campaign promises

Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017
Abstract 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, Razvan Vlaicu
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Does Aid Buy Votes? [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN 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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