Why governments and parties manipulate elections: theory, practice, and implications
"Why do parties and governments cheat in elections they cannot lose? This book documents the widespread use of blatant and excessive manipulation of elections and explains what drives this practice. Alberto Simpser shows that, in many instances, elections are about more than winning. Electoral manipulation is not only a tool used to gain votes, but also a means of transmitting or distorting information. This manipulation conveys an image of strength, shaping the behavior of citizens, bureaucrat…
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- Full title :Why governments and parties manipulate elections : theory, practice, and implications / Alberto Simpser.
Summary
"Why do parties and governments cheat in elections they cannot lose? This book documents the widespread use of blatant and excessive manipulation of elections and explains what drives this practice. Alberto Simpser shows that, in many instances, elections are about more than winning. Electoral manipulation is not only a tool used to gain votes, but also a means of transmitting or distorting information. This manipulation conveys an image of strength, shaping the behavior of citizens, bureaucrats, politicians, parties, unions and businesspeople to the benefit of the manipulators, increasing the scope for the manipulators to pursue their goals while in government and mitigating future challenges to their hold on power. Why Governments and Parties Manipulate Elections provides a general theory about what drives electoral manipulation and empirically documents global patterns of manipulation"--
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- Publication Date:©2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (304 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781107306882, 1107306884, 9781107314634, 1107314631, 9781139343824, 1139343823, 9781107309081, 1107309085, 1107301793, 9781107301795, 1107302897, 9781107302891, 1107312434, 9781107312432, 9781107448681, 1107448689
- oclc:ocn826857655
- LC Classification:JF1083
- Dewey Decimal:364.1/323
Table of Contents
List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction and Overview; 1.1 Overview of the Argument and Findings; The Argument in Brief: Electoral Manipulation and Information; Empirical Findings; 1.2 Ramifications of the Argument and Relation to Other Bodies of Work; The Logic of Electoral Manipulation in Authoritarian Systems; Regime Type and Electoral Manipulation; Single-Party Elections and Excessive/Blatant Manipulation; Electoral Manipulation and Popular Rebellion; Electoral Manipulation and the Choice to Hold Elections.
The Variety of Tools of Electoral ManipulationAdditional Related Literatures; 1.3 Organization and Chapter-by-Chapter Overview; 2 Electoral Manipulation; 2.1 What Is Electoral Manipulation?; 2.2 Manipulated Elections; 2.3 A Cross-National Measure of Electoral Manipulation; Implementing a Cross-National Measure of Electoral Manipulation; Summary Measures of Electoral Manipulation; 2.4 A Snapshot of Electoral Manipulation Around the World, 1990-2007; Appendix; Additional Notes on the Data; 3 The Puzzle of Excessive and Blatant Manipulation; 3.1 Conventional Wisdoms on Electoral Manipulation.
3.2 The First Conventional Wisdom3.3 The Empirical…
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