Small Aggregates, Big Manipulation: Vote Buying Enforcement and Collective Monitoring
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DOI: 10.1111/ajps.12260
Abstract: Vote buying is widespread in developing democracies despite the secret ballot. What explains its resilience? I argue that brokers condition future payments on published electoral results to enforce these transactions and that this is effective… read more here.
Keywords: vote buying; aggregates big; small aggregates; monitoring ... See more keywords