Elections for Sale
Elections for Sale
The Causes and Consequences of Vote Buying
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Bind: Paperback
Year: 2017
Pages: 238
Size: 5.75 x 9 Inch
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
Published in India by: Viva Books
Exclusive Distributors: Viva Books
Sales Territory: India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
"A great book ... comprehensive, clearly written, and relevant for a wide range of scholars."
—John Gerring, Boston University
Description:
Often regarded as a phenomenon of earlier times and backward places, vote buying has made an impressive comeback in recent decades - primarily as a by-product of democratization. Elections for Sale offers the first comprehensive analysis of this widespread but illunderstood practice.
The authors systematically explore a series of key questions: What exactly is vote buying? What are its underlying causes? Why does it occur in some places, but not in others? How does it affect political and economic development? Can it be educated or legislated away? Their work presents new theoretical insights, as well as fresh empirical evidence from Asia and Latin America.
Target Audience:
Academicians, students and researchers of Political Science.
Contents:
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Why Study Vote Buying? (Frederic Charles Schaffer)
Chapter 2 What Is Vote Buying? (Frederic Charles Schaffer and Andreas Schedler)
Part 1: When and How Do Politicians Buy Votes?
Chapter 3 When Does a Market for Votes Emerge? (Fabrice Lehoucc)
Chapter 4 How Do Rules and Institutions Encourage Vote Buying? (Allen D. Hicken)
Chapter 5 The Logistics: How to Buy Votes (Chin-Shou Wang and Charles Kurzman)
Part 2: How Does Vote Buying Shape Politics and the Economy
Chapter 6 Is Vote Buying Undemocratic? (Susan C. Stokes)
Chapter 7 How Does Vote Buying Shape the Legislative Arena? (Scott W Desposato )
Chapter 8 How Does Vote Buying Shape the Economy? (Jean-Marie Baland and James A. Robinson)
Part 3: Is Reform Possible?
Chapter 9 How Effective Are Institutional Reforms? (Allen D. Ricke)
Part 4: Conclusion
Chapter 11 Lessons Learned (Frederic Charles Schaffer)
Bibliography
The Contributors
Index
About the Book
About the Author:
Frederic Charles Schaffer is lecturer on social studies at Harvard University and research associate at the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is author of Democracy in Translation: Understanding Politics in an Unfamiliar Culture.
