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From Open to Secret Ballot: Vote Buying and Modernization
University of Cambridge, UK;Jesus College, UK;CESifo, Germany.
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1905-6859
2017 (English)In: Comparative Political Studies, ISSN 0010-4140, E-ISSN 1552-3829, Vol. 50, no 5, p. 555-593Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Abstract [en]

The secret ballot is one of the cornerstones of democracy. We contend that the historical process of modernization caused the switch from open to secret ballot with the underlying mechanism being that income growth, urbanization, and rising education standards undermined vote markets. We undertake event history studies of ballot reform in Western Europe and the U.S. states during the 19th and 20th centuries to establish that modernization was systematically related to ballot reform. We study electoral turnout before and after ballot reform among the U.S. states and British parliamentary constituencies to substantiate the hypothesis that modernization reduced the volume of trade in the vote market.

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Sage Publications, 2017. Vol. 50, no 5, p. 555-593
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Secret ballot, Modernization, Electoral turnout, Democratization
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Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalisation Studies) Economics
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Social Sciences, Political Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-107502DOI: 10.1177/0010414016628268ISI: 000400003300002Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85013427593OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-107502DiVA, id: diva2:1603136
Available from: 2021-10-14 Created: 2021-10-14 Last updated: 2024-09-16Bibliographically approved

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