Buying Votes across Borders? A List Experiment on Mexican Immigrants in the US

Jaehyun Song (), Takeshi Iida (), Yuriko Takahashi () and Jesús Tovar ()
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Jaehyun Song: Waseda Institute of Advanced Studies, Waseda University
Takeshi Iida: Department of Political Science, Doshisha Universit
Yuriko Takahashi: School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University
Jesús Tovar: Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México

No 1919, Working Papers from Waseda University, Faculty of Political Science and Economics

Abstract: Although immigrant populations have grown worldwide, their electoral connections with their home countries have been understudied. This study investigated vote-buying in the overseas ballot. Focusing on the 2018 federal elections in Mexico, we assumed that the recent reform of extending voting rights abroad, the lower socioeconomic status of the immigrants, the dubious secret ballot, and the weak oversight mechanisms in overseas ballots provided favorable conditions for buying expatriates' votes through the cross-border networks. Our list experiment found that approximately 32 percent of Mexican immigrants in the US experienced vote-buying during the electoral campaign. Furthermore, multivariate analysis showed that the most susceptible to vote-buying were those who were female, young, full-time workers, contacted by party activists, supporters of PAN (Partido Acción Nacional) and MORENA (Movimiento Regeneración Nacional), and living where there was a high concentration of Hometown Associations (HTAs).

Keywords: vote-buying; overseas ballot; list experiment; immigration; Mexico; US (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2020-01
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