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| dc.title | Incumbent Advantage, Voter Information and Vote Buying |
| dc.contributor.author | Cruz, Cesi |
| dc.contributor.author | Keefer, Philip |
| dc.contributor.author | Labonne, Julien |
| dc.contributor.orgunit | Institutions for Development Sector |
| dc.date.available | 2016-06-30T00:00:00 |
| dc.date.issue | 2016-07-01T00:00:00 |
| dc.description.abstract | Results from a new experiment shed light on the effects of voter informationon vote buying and incumbent advantage. The treatment provided voters with information about a major spending program and the proposed allocations and promises of mayoral candidates just prior to municipal elections. It left voters more knowledgeable about candidates' proposed policies and increased the salience of spending, but did not affect vote shares and turnout. Treated voters were more likely to be targeted for vote buying. We develop a model of vote buying that accounts for these results. The information raised voter expectations regarding incumbent performance, especially in incumbent strongholds. Incumbents increased vote buying in response. Consistent with this explanation, both knowledge and vote buying impacts were higher in municipalities with dominant incumbents. Our findings show that, in a political environment where vote buying is the currency of electoral mobilization, incumbent efforts to increase voter welfare may take the form of greater vote buying. |
| dc.format.extent | 78 |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011746 |
| dc.identifier.url | https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Incumbent-Advantage-Voter-Information-and-Vote-Buying.pdf |
| dc.language.iso | en |
| dc.medium | Adobe PDF |
| dc.publisher | Inter-American Development Bank |
| dc.subject | Public Service |
| dc.subject | Vote Buying |
| dc.subject.jelcode | D72 - Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior |
| dc.subject.jelcode | P16 - Political Economy |
| dc.subject.keywords | voter information;incumbent advantage |
| dc.type | Working Papers |
| idb.identifier.pubnumber | Working Papers |
| idb.operation | RG-K1427 |