The Calculus of Vote-Selling: Electoral Trust and the Value of a Vote
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Existing work has established that clientelistic parties can maximize their returns by targeting poor voters, because their votes are “cheaper” in the sense that the value of a gift is elastic and the diminishing marginal utility of income implies that a gift of a given monetary value will be worth more to a poorer voter. I examine the The Calculus of Vote-Selling: Electoral Trust and the Value of a Vote about:reader?url=https://blog.mpsanet.org/2016/05/16/the-calculus-of-vo...
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تاریخ انتشار 2016