The Politics of Corruption

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The political exchange that links corruption, poverty, and elections.

By the end, students should be able to:

• distinguish clientelism, patronage, vote buying, and programmatic politics with a concrete example of each
• explain how machines monitor voters despite the secret ballot (Stokes) and why turnout buying evades that problem (Nichter)
• explain reciprocity as an enforcement mechanism, using Finan–Schechter’s targeting result