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Clientelism-determined Voting, or How to Improve the Candidate’s Chances in Elections for Rural Commune Heads and Town Mayors

Summary/Abstract: The eventful history of clientelism as a social phenomenon has always been connected with political power – its acquisition, retention and exertion. Clientelism occurs at each level of authority. When left unpunished, clientelism may lead to extra-legal activities, which sometimes aim at manipulating the results of electoral competition in unauthorized ways. This article shows how clientelistic relationships at the communal level may be related to an illegal influence on election outcomes for the communal executive authority. To illustrate this, the article presents selected strategies used by communal actors which are based on clientelism and were implemented in order to modify election results for communal authorities. The article concludes with a proposal for discussion concerning the possibility of detecting election manipulations using analyses of so-called close elections as part of the Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD).

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