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Elections ought in theory to go a long way toward making democracy 'work', but in many contexts, they fail to embody democratic ideals because they are affected by electoral manipulation and misconduct. This book undertakes an analytic and explanatory investigation of electoral malpractice, which is understood as taking three principal manipulation of the rules governing elections, manipulation of vote preference formation and expression, and manipulation of the voting process. Electoral Malpractice --which is comparative in nature--starts out by providing a conceptual definition and typology of electoral malpractice, before considering evidence for the causes of this phenomenon. The principal argument of the book is that factors affecting the costs of electoral malpractice are crucial in determining whether leaders will, in any given context, seek to rig elections. Among the most important factors of this sort are the linkages between elites and citizens, and in particular the balance between relations of the civil-society and clientelist types. These linkages play an important role in determining how much legitimacy leaders will lose by engaging in electoral manipulation as well

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Author

Sarah Birch

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199606160

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Social_sciences