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What role do elections play in nondemocracies? In this paper, we offer an empirical test of a popular idea that authoritarian governments use elections to engineer overwhelming victories thus deterring potential opposition from challenging the regime. Using the data from the Russian...
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The results provide some evidence of vote fraud in U.S. general elections. Regulations that prevent fraud are shown to …
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The current political situation in Sudan has deteriorated with the secession of its Southern part, the Darfur dilemma and the growing public feelings of deprivation, political disparities, elitism that possess the whole country. However, evidence proves that the situation is an accumulation of...
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Election fraud can threaten democracy if many ineligible people are allowed to vote. The usual policy prescription is … tougher and consistent statutes across states against voter fraud …
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This paper examines the effect of social media on electoral fraud reporting during the 2011 Duma elections in Russia … fraud. The empirical results point to a strong link between economic modernization in a region and voters' use of social …
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We use a randomized saturation design to investigate whether domestic election observers reduce electoral fraud in the … constituencies. Our data shows that observers induce the strategic relocation of fraud to nearby but unobserved polling places … electoral fraud and for empirical investigations of governance …
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Does electoral fraud affect development? In a weak institutional environment the answer is not obvious. This paper … demonstrates that electoral fraud can lower development and this effect is mediated through the partisan control of electoral …). This paper identifies a form of electoral fraud in India in which parties register non-citizens as voters closer to the …
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resort to election fraud in both parliamentary and presidential elections. This research aims to study the degree to which … election fraud helps governors to extend their terms in office by analyzing three major periods: 2000-2005 electoral period … primary measures of election fraud …
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