"We Are All Hypocrites Here": Patronage as Predation in the "Dirty Game" of Kenya's Elections
Lockwood, Peter
"We Are All Hypocrites Here": Patronage as Predation in the "Dirty Game" of Kenya's Elections - Current Anthropology 2024 - 1060-1083
In Kenya's 2017 elections, politicians distributed cash handouts at campaign rallies and public gatherings in a bid to persuade voters to elect them. Anthropologists have sought to reframe such acts of apparent "vote buying" as gift giving (rather than de
0011-3204
Dirty Game
Kenya's Elections
Vote Buying
All Hypocrites
"We Are All Hypocrites Here": Patronage as Predation in the "Dirty Game" of Kenya's Elections - Current Anthropology 2024 - 1060-1083
In Kenya's 2017 elections, politicians distributed cash handouts at campaign rallies and public gatherings in a bid to persuade voters to elect them. Anthropologists have sought to reframe such acts of apparent "vote buying" as gift giving (rather than de
0011-3204
Dirty Game
Kenya's Elections
Vote Buying
All Hypocrites