Louise Thorn Bøttkjær
PhD fellow
Department of Business and Politics
Copenhagen Business Academy
Denmark
Biography
" My PhD project “Why do voters engage in vote trades in new democracies?†is financed by the Danish Council for Independent Research within the “Crooked politics†project. My PhD project investigates a genuine puzzle in vote buying: In theory, the secret ballot is supposed to prevent vote markets – the exchange of votes for material rewards – from operating during elections. Yet empirical evidence suggest that vote markets thrive during elections in new democracies. My research design is a case study, implemented as a new large-N survey with strategically selected survey-experiments. The case study consists of a new survey, which will be conducted during the 2016 municipal elections in South Africa."
Research Interest
"Voting behaviour Vote trades Democracy theory Survey experiments"
Publications
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" Louise Thorn Bøttkjær; Peter Sandholt Jensen; Mogens Kamp Justesen / Buying the Votes of the Poor : How the Electoral System Matters."
