Hitting Them with Carrots: Voter Intimidation and Vote Buying in Russia

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Frye ◽  
Ora John Reuter ◽  
David Szakonyi
Keyword(s):  
Vote Buying ◽  
Buying In

Digital vote-buying will challenge weak democracies

2022 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Online Banking ◽  
Vote Buying ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Buying In

Significance In August, the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) warned that online banking and electronic wallets -- the use of which has surged during the pandemic -- will be prime vehicles for digital vote-buying. Impacts Digital vote-buying will strengthen regional political clans, which are often the conduit for vote-buying in rural areas. Foreign influencer campaigns could become more disruptive with digital vote-buying. Fintech firms in fragile democracies could face tighter regulation on transparency and Know Your Customer rules.

Hitting Them With Carrots: Voter Intimidation and Vote Buying in Russia

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 857-881 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Frye ◽  
Ora John Reuter ◽  
David Szakonyi
Keyword(s):  
Middle Income Country ◽  
Income Country ◽  
Vote Buying ◽  
Election Cycle ◽  
Active Monitoring ◽  
Simple Argument ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Survey Experiments ◽  
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Scholars have identified many ways that politicians use carrots, such as vote buying, to mobilize voters, but have paid far less attention to how they use sticks, such as voter intimidation. This article develops a simple argument which suggests that voter intimidation should be especially likely where vote buying is expensive and employers have greater leverage over employees. Using survey experiments and crowd-sourced electoral violation reports from the 2011–12 election cycle in Russia, the study finds evidence consistent with these claims. Moreover, it finds that where employers have less leverage over employees, active forms of monitoring may supplement intimidation in order to encourage compliance. These results suggest that employers can be reliable vote brokers; that voter intimidation can persist in a middle-income country; and that, under some conditions, intimidation may be employed without the need for active monitoring.

Vote-Buying in Thailand's Northeast: The July 1995 General Election

Asian Survey ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 376-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Callahan ◽  
Duncan McCargo
Keyword(s):  
General Election ◽  
Vote Buying ◽  
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scholarly journals Social Networks and the Targeting of Vote Buying

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 382-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cesi Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
New Democracies ◽  
Vote Buying ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Political Cooperation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Electoral Strategies ◽  
Established Democracies ◽  
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The social networks of voters have been shown to facilitate political cooperation and information transmission in established democracies. These same social networks, however, can also make it easier for politicians in new democracies to engage in clientelistic electoral strategies. Using survey data from the Philippines, this article demonstrates that individuals with more friend and family ties are disproportionately targeted for vote buying. This is consistent with the importance of other social factors identified in the literature such as reciprocity, direct ties to politicians, and individual social influence. In addition, this article presents evidence supporting an additional mechanism linking voter social networks to the targeting of vote buying: social network–based monitoring. Voters with larger networks are both more sensitive to the ramifications of reneging on vote buying agreements and are primarily targeted for vote buying in contexts where monitoring is necessary.

scholarly journals Hitting Them With Carrots: Voter Intimidation and Vote Buying in Russia – CORRIGENDUM

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 882-882
Author(s):  
Timothy Frye ◽  
Ora John Reuter ◽  
David Szakonyi
Keyword(s):  
Vote Buying ◽  
Buying In
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