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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"vote-buying"”.
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A One-shot Deal on the Spot: How Vote Buying Affects Electoral Behaviour. Experimental Evidence from Mexico
… Mexican Presidential Elections, about 50 million voters went to polls to elect more than two thousand posts. The runner-up attributed the defeat to a massive vote-buying mobilisation in favour of the front-runner. Reports from electoral observers supported that version. Did vote buying modify …
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Does Everyone Have a Price? The Demand Side of Clientelism and Vote-Buying in an Emerging Democracy
<p>Public opinion tools are used to look at voter motivations to engage in clientelistic practices and their variation across structures of competition.</p>
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MASS POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN DEVELOPING DEMOCRACIES: A STUDY OF POLITICAL CLIENTELISM IN THAI PROVINCES
… political participation, primarily through vote-buying between patrons and clients. Therefore, the extent to which democratization erodes clientelism as widely expected, could not be assumed. The questions of what are the causal effects of clientelism on political participation, how does the …
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Essays on political economy in Sub-Saharan Africa
… randomized controlled trial designed to combat vote-buying in the 2016 Ugandan elections. Our design allows us to estimate how the effects of the campaign against vote-buying vary with local treatment intensity. We find that the campaign did not reduce the extent to which voters accepted cash …
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Essays on Political Economy
… evidence of an unexplored yet common form of vote-buying: voter registration shifting. I demonstrate that this practice drastically affects 15% of local elections in Colombia. By employing quasi-experimental methods, I illustrate how the (future) allocation of transfers from central to local …
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The Demand for Aid and the Supply of Development
… in which the political returns to satisfying voter preferences motivate the distribution of aid by a recipient government. The results of this model correspond to the optimal distribution of aid projects given citizen demand. I estimate the demand for many types of aid projects using a …
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Essays in political economy
… randomized controlled trial designed to combat vote-buying in the 2016 election in Uganda. We find that the campaign did not reduce the extent to which voters accepted cash and gifts in exchange for their votes. In addition, we designed the study to take advantage of our large sample (covering …
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Agency in the Barrio: Exploring the Intersection of Participation, Politics and Urban Development in Guatemala City
… of citizen participation, political practices of vote buying and approaches to community development in low-income urban areas, in the collection of neighborhoods known as Ciudad Peronia on the edge of Guatemala City. Together, the four articles in this thesis explore varying aspects of the social …
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Rural transformation and local politics in a central Thai district
… The study describes candidates' use of local 'vote brokers', 'vote-buying' and political patronage. The parts played by members of a district-wide manufacturers' association, by national politicians and by religious leaders are also examined. The case studies serve to expose the contradictions …
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Essays on applied econometrics
… between the odds of winning an election and vote-buying. In Taiwan in 2010, eight cities and counties accounting for 60% of the entire population were merged and upgraded to five special municipalities. Along with the merger event, the number of district seats was changed, exogenously …
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Quid-pro-quo or no? Targeted electoral distribution in Brazil
… campaigns, interviewed dozens of ordinary voters, activists, and community leaders, and implemented two original nationwide surveys which focused on a series of vignette and conjoint experiments. The empirical results provide three main contributions. First, I estimate that politicians …
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Essays on the Political Behavior of Economic Informality and Public Goods
… speak the national language, express support for vote buying, yet show lower ethnic trust. In light of theoretical knowledge on historical urbanization and political identity formation, results suggest that social contexts afforded by informal housing can produce clientelism alongside attitudes of …
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A Scalable Blockchain Framework for Verifiable and Private Ranked-Choice Online Voting
… achieving end-to-end verifiability that ordinary voters can meaningfully check, and exposure to coercion and vote buying, rather than generic cyberattacks alone. Blockchain-based approaches, while offering immutability and public auditability, face significant scalability limits. Network …
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On Deniable Computation and Sublinear Graph Algorithms
… of the encrypted data, as well the prevention of vote-buying in electronic voting schemes where encrypted votes can be tallied without decryption. Our constructions achieve compactness independently of the level of deniability- both the size of the public key and the size of the ciphertexts are …
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Two essays on political influence and the regulation of financial markets
… I find no statistical support for a theory of vote-buying. I conclude that corporate political behavior is tied to levels of inside ownership, and comprises an alternate index of manager-shareholder conflict. Using a similar approach to analyse the financial services industry, I also find …