Elections for Sale: The Causes And Consequences of Vote Buying

By F. Schaffer. 2007

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Elections, Information, and Policy Responsiveness in Autocratic Regimes (2015, background): “Case-study work has demonstrated this in Mexico (Magaloni, 2006), Egypt (Blaydes, 2011), Jordan (Lust-Okar, 2006), Singapore (Leong, 2000), Taiwan (Wang & Kurzman, 2007), and Napoleon III’s France (Zeldin, 1958).”
Vote-Buying and Reciprocity (2011, unknown): “Our estimates of both the incidence of vote-buying and the amount are consistent with several estimates in the literature (Stokes, 2005; Vicente, 2008; Wang and Kurzman, 2007).”
Causes and Consequences of Political Clientelism: Mexico's PRD in Comparative Perspective (2008, background): “Unlike clientelism, this is a one-shot, direct exchange, in which the participants have no particular characteristics other than that the recipient is a voter (Schaffer 2007).”
Government Transfers and Political Support (2009, unknown): “We exploit the quasi-random assignment of applicants to the program based on a sharp discontinuity in a predicted income score in order to identify the effect of receiving transfers on support for the incumbent government, and to ultimately advance understanding of voter decision making.”
Buying votes vs. supplying public services : political incentives to under-invest in pro-poor policies (2013, background): “2 Some recent contributors are: Stokes (2005, 2007), Schaffer (2007), Nichter (2008, 2010, 2011), Vicente and”