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Vote Buying or Turnout Buying? Machine Politics and the Secret Ballot

  • Simeon Nichter
  • Business
    American Political Science Review
  • 1 February 2008
Scholars typically understand vote buying as offering particularistic benefits in exchange for vote choices. This depiction of vote buying presents a puzzle: with the secret ballot, what prevents…
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