• Medientyp: E-Book
  • Titel: Promises, Promises : Vote-Buying and the Electoral Mobilization Strategies of Non-Credible Politicians
  • Beteiligte: Hanusch, Marek [VerfasserIn]; Hanusch, Marek [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Keefer, Philip [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
  • Erschienen: Washington, D.C: The World Bank, 2013
    2013
  • Umfang: Online-Ressource (38 p)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6653
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  • Reproduktionsreihe: World Bank eLibrary
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  • Beschreibung: Vote-buying is pervasive, but not everywhere. What explains significant variations across countries in the greater use of pre-electoral transfers to mobilize voters relative to the use of pre-electoral promises of post-electoral transfers? This paper explicitly models the trade-offs that politicians incur when they decide between mobilizing support with vote-buying or promises of post-electoral benefits. Politicians rely more on vote-buying when they are less credible, target vote-buying to those who do not believe their political promises, and only buy votes from those who would have received post-electoral transfers in a world of full political credibility. The enforcement of a prohibition on vote-buying reduces the welfare of those targeted with vote-buying, but improves the welfare of all other groups in society