Seminar series Against the Machine Why party competition disrupts vote buying Add to calendar 2025-12-04 17:00 2025-12-04 18:30 Europe/Rome Against the Machine Seminar Room 2 Badia Fiesolana YYYY-MM-DD Print Share: Share on Facebook Share on BlueSky Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email Scheduled dates Dec 04 2025 17:00 - 18:30 CET Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana Organised by Department of Political and Social Sciences In the context of the Comparative Politics Seminar Series, this session features a presentation by Ken Greene, EUI Jean Monnet Fellow. 'Against the Machine: Why Party Competition Disrupts Vote Buying' offers a new partisan-competition argument that accounts for variation in the success and failure of vote-buying attempts better than existing institutional, sociological, and organisational perspectives. After giving an overview of the argument, it focus on one of the three proposed mechanisms: 1) partisan responses to electoral gifts that put opposition voters out of the machines’ reach; 2) the influence of partisan campaigns that reduce the machine’s ability to target the optimal clients; 3) partisan views of ballot secrecy that encourage recipients to defect from the vote-buying bargain. Register Related events