Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Flow of Presentation
I.
Introduction: Definition
A. Perspective of Candidates and their Agents
B. Perspective of Voters
1.
Vote buying: Definition
Normative Compliance
- goodness or worthiness
Coercive Compliance
- bullying recipients
Perspective of Voters
Payment
A quid pro quo
Gift or Favor
Wage
Threat
Reparation
Evidence of Winnability
Affront
2.
Candidate Strategies
and Voter Meanings
Socioeconomic Factors
Effective clientelism
Giving gifts to be a more appropriate and effective
strategy than outright payment.
In Taiwan, for instance, gift giving is generally expected of
house guests.
Gift giving as a matter of showing good manners.
Institutional Factors
Vote secrecy is respected which limit candidates individual
monitoring strategy
The choice of alternative strategies depends on
- sociological factors (stability of community, density
of social
networks),
- organizational factors (ability to recruit local
canvassers) and
- institutional factors (where ballot counting takes
place,
number of polling stations)
A change in institutions will not singularly determine what
new strategies candidates and their operatives will adopt.
Institutional Factors
Organization of a party or a candidates campaign
Tiresome to link systematically specific strategy
mixes and clusters of voter meaning to particular sets
of socioeconomic, institutional, and organizational
arrangements.
3.
Philippine Laws
against Vote Buying
4.
Kinds of Voters
Accepts
money
from
candidate
X
Votes for
candiate
X
Rejects
money
from
politicians
Accepts
money
from
candidate
X
Votes for
the
candidate
of their
choice
Votes for
candidate
Y, as he is
more
deserving
5.
Conclusion
Recommendation
Authentic, effective and efficient implementation of the electoral
process has to be enforced at all levels of the bureaucracy.
Ultimately, voters education need to be undertaken since early
school age levels so that starting early in life, children would
know that vote buying is not, and should never be the norm in
deciding whom to choose during elections.
Dignity
Integrity
Morality
thanks!
Sources:
Clean Elections and the Great Unwashed by Frederic Charles
Schaffer
http://www.chanrobles.com/electioncodeofthephilippines.htm
http://faq.ph/is-vote-buying-illegal-in-the-philippines/