Is Vote Buying Effective? / Il mercato dei voti elettorali

Vote buying takes many forms and happens in most democracies. Indeed, its relation to general campaign spending in elections is not free of discussion. But political scientists tend to agree that if one wants to identify vote buying, one should find it in campaign spending activities with no political substance (handing of cash/goods for votes). We can therefore infer that vote buying may be thriving in settings with low political accountability. This is clearly the case in many developing countries more...