Concept information
Preferred term
machine politics
Definition
- Machine politics refers to politics in which votes are exchanged for discrete benefits. Under machine politics, voting is driven by a direct exchange between voter and political candidate rather than by opinion or ideology. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Machine Politics]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/machine_politics
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