"Theorising Electoral Fraud: from isolated cases to a typology of causes of electoral fraud in the UK”
| Dates: | 11 November 2015 |
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| Times: | 03:30 - 17:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| Speaker: | Eleanor Hill |
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Eleanor Hill talks about the paper authored by Maria Sobolewska, Eleanor Hill, Stuart Wilks-Heeg and Magdalena Borkowska
Electoral fraud in the UK seems rare. Any known cases are therefore usually studied in isolation and offer very little if any generalisability. However, an increased political salience of the potential link between South Asian communities and electoral fraud has brought a need to study the phenomenon of electoral fraud in a more systematic manner. This study addresses this need by extending the usual approach of investigating single cases to studying a number of more and less likely fraud settings and linking the phenomenon of electoral fraud to other electoral activities, politics and social life more broadly. We offer a first known typology of causes of fraud in the UK, in which we distinguish between those causes that create vulnerability to fraud, those that create direct opportunities for fraud to take place, and those that facilitate fraud taking place. This typology helps to explain why and how fraud happens, and to identify conditions under which future fraud is likely.
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