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Promises, promises : vote-buying and the electoral mobilization strategies of non-credible politicians (English)

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...
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Hanusch,Marek; Keefer,Philip E..

Promises, promises : vote-buying and the electoral mobilization strategies of non-credible politicians (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 6653 Washington DC ; World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/175361468152722912

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