Growth of electoral fraud in non-democracies: the role of uncertainty

0351409 - NHU-C 2011 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Vorobyev, Dmitriy
Growth of electoral fraud in non-democracies: the role of uncertainty.
CERGE-EI Working Paper Series. -, č. 420 (2010), s. 1-40. ISSN 1211-3298
R&D Projects: GA MŠk LC542
Grant - others:MŠk(CZ) SVV-2010-261801
Institutional research plan: CEZ:MSM0021620846
Keywords : election * voting * fraud * learning
Subject RIV: AH - Economics
http://www.cerge-ei.cz/pdf/wp/Wp420.pdf

Electoral fraud has become an integral part of electoral competition both in established democracies and less-than-democratic regimes. In this paper I study electoral fraud in the non-democratic setting. First, I present evidence of fraud sustainability and growth over the lifetime of non-democratic regimes in post-Soviet and Sub-Saharan countries. Second, I provide a theoretical model that explains the observed tendency of growing fraud.
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