POL 2104 Chapter Notes -Election 2, Collective Action, Electoral Fraud
6 Jul 2014
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Electoral fraud, collective action problems, and post-communist colored. When a regime commits electoral fraud, however, an individual"s calculus regarding whether to participate in a protest against the regime can be changed significantly. One additional common feature across the four colored revolutions is that they all took place in extremely corrupt societies. Electoral fraud is intended to refer to situations in which electoral results were knowingly tampered with in an effort to advantage one candidate (or set of candidates) over another. Collective action problems characterize situations in which a group would benefit from cooperation, but the lack of individual incentives to engage in the actions necessary to achieve this cooperation prevents the goal from being attained. If individuals believe that their cost of participation outweighs the benefits to be gained from the group goal, then they will choose not to participate.
