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abstention buying: a standalone construct

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Comparative politics

payments to opposition supporters to stay home on election day, a form of electoral corruption that lowers rather than raises turnout.

In comparative politics, abstention buying refers to payments to opposition supporters to stay home on election day, a form of electoral corruption that lowers rather than raises turnout. This meaning comes from Cox (1981) in American Journal of Political Science.[1]

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election1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct form4 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs opposition2 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Cox, G. W., & Kousser, J. M. (1981). Turnout and Rural Corruption: New York as a Test Case. American Journal of Political Science, 25(4), 646. https://doi.org/10.2307/2110757

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