With the victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 United States presidential election, populists
have come to power in the US for the first time in many years. However, US political …

Who do parties target for clientelistic vote buying? Existing research looks almost exclusively
at individuals' socioeconomic and, especially, electoral profiles—which parties and …

One of the linchpins of democratic accountability runs through service quality. Because
citizens are sensitive to the quality of basic services, they can translate (dis) satisfaction into …

How do politicians buy votes in secret ballot elections? I present a model of vote buying in
which a broker sustains bribed voters' compliance by conditioning future bribes on whether …

This article analyzes the relationship between clientelism and citizens' political orientation in
Latin America. Consistent political perceptions in the citizenry are central in traditional …

An emerging literature emphasizes the importance of vote brokers for electoral politics in the
developing world. Yet in spite of the great interest in the topic, attempts to assess the impact …

Offering employment in the public sector in exchange for electoral support (patronage
politics) and vote-buying are clientelistic practices frequently used by political machines. In …

In this article, I argue that, in clientelist regimes, money officially allocated to local public
goods will sometimes be diverted to private handouts, and that the extent of diversion will be …

In this article, we explore a phenomenon we call attendance-buying. Specifically, we
investigate the case of buying the attendance of voters at political rallies. Politicians and …

This article focuses on the repercussions of vote buying on turnout in presidential elections
in eight Latin American countries. The research is conducted with individual‐level data from …