@article{fe3c0920f5c44f5e994657b5654f37b5,
title = "Buying Votes across Borders? A List Experiment on Mexican Immigrants in the United States",
abstract = "As international migration has grown worldwide, the issue of how to assure the political rights of citizens living abroad has attracted much scholarly attention. One concern has been that if vote-buying is widespread in home countries, this practice could be exported to external elections. Although there have been numerous studies focused on electoral participation in external voting, there has been no systematic test of whether vote-buying is occurring across borders. This study aims to address this question by focusing on the 2018 federal elections in Mexico. Our list experiment shows that in our sample, approximately 32 per cent of Mexican immigrants in the United States experienced vote-buying during the electoral campaign. Furthermore, a multivariate analysis shows that the people most susceptible to vote-buying were living in areas where there was a high concentration of Mexican immigrants. The study results point to the importance of cross-border networks, which have been built between countries sending and receiving immigrants, in facilitating vote-buying across borders.",
keywords = "Mexico, United States, external voting, immigration, vote-buying",
author = "Jaehyun Song and Takeshi Iida and Yuriko Takahashi and Jes{\'u}s Tovar",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgments. A previous version of this article was presented at the 2019 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 29–September 1, Washington, DC, as well as at the Comparative Politics Seminar at the University of California San Diego, February 4, 2020, and at the GSIS BK21 Special Lecture Series at Seoul National University, January 14, 2022. We would like to thank Johnathan Hartlyn, Megumi Naoi, Simeon Nichter, Yunkyu Sohn, Jiyeoun Song, Shane Xuan, the participants of the meeting and seminars, and the members of the research groups of Ikuo Kume, Yutaka Onishi, and Shinji Yamasaki and Atsushi Tago for comments and suggestions. This study is financially supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP17H02484, JP17H04512, JP15H01931 and a general research grant from Waseda University. The design of the list experiment was screened and approved by the institutional review board of the Graduate School of Law, Kobe University (ID: 30005). Any remaining errors are the authors{\textquoteright} own responsibility. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 The Author(s). Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Soci{\'e}t{\'e} qu{\'e}b{\'e}coise de science politique.",
year = "2022",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1017/S0008423922000567",
language = "English",
volume = "55",
pages = "852--872",
journal = "Canadian Journal of Political Science",
issn = "0008-4239",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
number = "4",
}