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 import outsi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nichter, Simeon, Hidalgo, Fernando Daniel
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Wiley Blackwell 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101087
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0237-5060