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Vote-buying: Is it at Threat to Democratic Policy Representation?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2007

Mary Breeding
Mary Breeding
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Do “vote-buying” activities of locally elected legislators in developing countries crowd out the representation of mass policy preferences? If a legislator can buy a citizen's vote with a material benefit, does he really have an incentive to represent the interests of his constituents in legislative decision-making? Imagine the following setting: A slum neighborhood near Bangalore city center in Southern India. A group of women in worn-out sari-s, domestic servants who clean houses for a living, sit chatting outside their one-room concrete shacks with tin roofs. They have no bathing or cooking facilities in their shacks. They share the same water tap with hundreds of neighbors. Their toilet is the nearby railroad track. A well-dressed man exits a car and approaches.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 40 , Issue 4 , October 2007 , pp. 821
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© 2007 The American Political Science Association

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