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Scant attention has been devoted to these questions; this Article therefore represents a modest attempt to fill that void. Building on insights from the domestic sphere, this Article presents a new normative framework for assessing international vote buying. In so doing, it aims to foster debate about this important and underappreciated phenomenon, as well as to reassess our intuitions about the nature of international decisionmaking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/ilj\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2013\/03\/HLI104.pdf\">Read full post (PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Article examines the widely practiced\u2014and widely ignored\u2014phenomenon of \u201cinternational vote buying\u201d among states, that is, conduct whereby states offer 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