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Public Choice, 1998
In modern liberal democracies, offering individual voters in political elections money for their votes is wrong and illegal; offering groups of voters particular benefits in exchange for their votes is constitutionally protected. Voters do not sell their votes; instead, voters assign their votes to legislative representatives who sell or trade for them.
Michael S. Kochin, Levis A. Kochin
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In modern liberal democracies, offering individual voters in political elections money for their votes is wrong and illegal; offering groups of voters particular benefits in exchange for their votes is constitutionally protected. Voters do not sell their votes; instead, voters assign their votes to legislative representatives who sell or trade for them.
Michael S. Kochin, Levis A. Kochin
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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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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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Logrolling, Earmarking, and Vote Buying
Philosophia, 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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2012
This chapter assesses whether vote buying and selling are morally wrong. It then argues that vote buying and selling are morally permissible provided that selling votes does not lead to violations of the duties described in earlier chapters. Thus, vote buying and selling are not inherently wrong.
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This chapter assesses whether vote buying and selling are morally wrong. It then argues that vote buying and selling are morally permissible provided that selling votes does not lead to violations of the duties described in earlier chapters. Thus, vote buying and selling are not inherently wrong.
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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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Vote buying through public employment
2018The aim of this paper is to develop a theoretical model which would allow for the assessment of the effect that clientelism has on public sector efficiency. In short, the model shows that if the poorer citizens are ideologically mobile enough, opportunistic politicians can offer them better paying public employment in an attempt to sway their vote. The
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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.
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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.
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