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Poverty and vote buying: Survey-based evidence from Africa
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.
Justesen, Mogens K. +1 more
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The Vote Buying among Madurese Muslim; Islamic Law Standpoint
As one of the largest Muslim democracies, Indonesia is facing a significant challenge, one of which is vote-buying among its Muslim voters. It is believed that vote buying is a popular type of bribery practice or so-called risywah.
I Made Yunita +2 more
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Institutional Performance and Vote Buying in India. [PDF]
Inefficient and corrupt institutions provide an incentive for citizens to focus on short causal chains, which prize instant benefits from direct, clientelist exchanges over the promise of uncertain and distant programmatic rewards. Drawing on a tightly controlled comparison arising from the bifurcation of a state within the Indian federal system into ...
Heath O, Tillin L.
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Buying, expropriating and stealing votes [PDF]
In elections around the world, large numbers of voters are influenced by promises or threats that are contingent on how they vote. Recently, the political science literature has made considerable progress in disaggregating clientelism along two dimensions: first, in recognizing the diversity of actors working as brokers, and second, in conceptualizing ...
Isabela Mares, Lauren Young
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Buying Votes and International Organizations [PDF]
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Axel Dreher, James Raymond Vreeland
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Incumbent Advantage, Voter Information and Vote Buying [PDF]
Results from a new experiment shed light on the effects of voter information on vote buying and incumbent advantage. The treatment provided voters with information about a major spending program and the proposed allocations and promises of mayoral ...
Keefer, Philip +2 more
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Vote Buying in Brazil: From Impunity to Prosecution
Politicians often buy votes with impunity. Brazil outlawed vote buying for many years, but prosecutions were rare. However, popular pressure mounted against the practice in the late 1990s. Over one million Brazilians signed a petition against vote buying,
Simeon Nichter
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The Brondot Strategy: Achieving Victory Without Vote Buying in Indonesia’s Local Democracy
This study employs a qualitative method with a case study approach on village head elections in two villages in Central Java to explore the role of the brondot strategy in democratization.
Rofiq Rofiq, Nafisah Nafisah
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Campus Politics and Intra-Party Vote Buying in Ghana: How Political Mentorship Could Destruct
Elections in fledgling democracies are punctuated by perceived and observed cases of vote buying otherwise also called electoral clientelism – regarded as a major threat to democratic consolidation.
Sebastian Angzoorokuu Paalo +1 more
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