"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

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Dirty Game
Kenya's Elections
Vote Buying
All Hypocrites