Why Governments and Parties Manipulate Elections - Theory, Practice, and Implications

Informationen zum Autor Alberto Simpser is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He has held research fellowships at Princeton University's Center for Globalization and Governance and at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. His research has been published in the Journal of Politics and Public Opinion Quarterly. Klappentext This book documents the widespread use of blatant and excessive manipulation of elections and explains what drives this practice. Zusammenfassung This book documents the widespread use of blatant and excessive manipulation of elections and explains what drives this practice. Simpser shows that! in many instances! governments and parties manipulate elections not only to gain votes! but also to transmit or distort information. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: more than winning; 1. Introduction and overview; 2. Electoral manipulation: what it is and how to measure it; 3. The puzzle of excessive and blatant manipulation; 4. More than winning: the consequences of excessive and blatant electoral manipulation; 5. The strategic logic of electoral manipulation; 6. The theory at work: evidence from case studies; 7. Indirect effects of electoral manipulation: quantitative evidence; 8. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Alberto Simpser, Alberto (University of Chicago) Simpser, Simpser Alberto
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.03.2013
• EAN: 9781107030541
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03054-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Political Economy of Instituti; Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Political structure & processes, Political structures: democracy, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Elections & referenda, Elections and referenda