Voter Buying: Shaping the Electorate through Clientelism
Studies of clientelism typically assume that political machines distribute rewards to persuade or mobilize the existing electorate. We argue that rewards not only influence actions of the electorate, but can also shape its composition. Across the world, machines employ "voter buying" to im...
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Language: | English |
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Wiley Blackwell,
2016-02-04T00:22:23Z.
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