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Who gets targeted for vote-buying? Evidence from an augmented list experiment in Turkey

dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of International Relations
dc.contributor.kuauthorÇarkoğlu, Ali
dc.contributor.kuauthorAytaç, Selim Erdem
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dc.date.accessioned2024-11-09T12:45:59Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractUnderstanding the dynamics of vote-buying is essential to improve accountability of elections in developing democracies. While list experiments are useful for attenuating social desirability bias associated with measuring vote-buying, they are not conducive to multivariate analyses, and the question of what types of individuals are targeted is left inadequately explored. We overcome this limitation by combining a population-based list experiment with an estimator (LISTIT) that allows for multivariate analyses in an efficient manner. Our analysis suggests that in the 2011 parliamentary elections of Turkey over one-third of the electorate was targeted for vote-buying, which is more than double the proportion willing to admit when asked directly. Additionally, we find that strong partisans of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), less-educated individuals, and urban residents are significantly more likely to be targeted for vote-buying. We present compelling evidence for the hypotheses that parties target their core supporters and socio-economically vulnerable individuals. The strength of our evidence derives from the use of original data on vote-buying that has been collected in an unobtrusive manner and analyzed at the level of individuals.
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dc.description.issue4
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dc.description.publisherscopeInternational
dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEuN/A
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dc.description.versionAuthor's final manuscript
dc.description.volume7
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dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S1755773914000320
dc.identifier.eissn1755-7747
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dc.identifier.filenameinventorynoIR01170
dc.identifier.issn1755-7739
dc.identifier.linkhttps://doi.org/10.1017/S1755773914000320
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/2460
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dc.keywordsVote buying
dc.keywordsList experiment
dc.keywordsLISTIT
dc.keywordsTurkey
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherCambridge University Press
dc.relation.urihttp://cdm21054.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/IR/id/6751
dc.sourceEuropean Political Science Review
dc.subjectPolitical science
dc.titleWho gets targeted for vote-buying? Evidence from an augmented list experiment in Turkey
dc.typeJournal Article
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