Vote Buying and Victory of Election: The Case of Taiwan

Chyi-Lu Jang and Chun-Ping Chang

Prague Economic Papers, 2016, vol. 2016, issue 5, 591-606

Abstract: This paper examines the effect of vote buying on the vote shares of multiple parties using maximum likelihood estimation of a Dirichlet distribution in a panel of 23 counties of Taiwan over the period of 1998-2008. We find that vote buying significantly influences the vote shares of multiple parties in Taiwan parliamentary elections. In particular, we find that vote buying reduces the likelihood of Chinese National Party (KMT) and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) votes by 10% and 11%, respectively. Our results provide strong evidence that vote buying decreases the probability of electoral success. We conclude that vote buying does not ensure victory in Taiwan parliamentary elections, and, therefore, emphasize that vote buying is ineffective and counterproductive practice. We offer several possible explanations for why candidates use scarce resources for this illegal practice during election campaigns. These results are robust to group logit model with seemingly unrelated regressions.

Keywords: Taiwan; Dirichlet distribution; vote shares; vote buying (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 O53 P16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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