Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism
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Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism

The Puzzle of Distributive Politics

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Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism

The Puzzle of Distributive Politics

About this book

Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism addresses major questions in distributive politics. Why is it acceptable for parties to try to win elections by promising to make certain groups of people better off, but unacceptable - and illegal - to pay people for their votes? Why do parties often lavish benefits on loyal voters, whose support they can count on anyway, rather than on responsive swing voters? Why is vote buying and machine politics common in today's developing democracies but a thing of the past in most of today's advanced democracies? This book develops a theory of broker-mediated distribution to answer these questions, testing the theory with research from four developing democracies, and reviews a rich secondary literature on countries in all world regions. The authors deploy normative theory to evaluate whether clientelism, pork-barrel politics, and other non-programmatic distributive strategies can be justified on the grounds that they promote efficiency, redistribution, or voter participation.

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Yes, you can access Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism by Susan C. Stokes,Thad Dunning,Marcelo Nazareno,Valeria Brusco in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Politics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Tables
  3. List of Figures
  4. Preface and Acknowledgments
  5. Part I Modalities of Distributive Politics
  6. Part II The Micro-Logic of Clientelism
  7. Part III The Macro-Logic of Vote Buying: What Explains the Rise and Decline ofPolitical Machines?
  8. Part IV Clientelism and Democratic Theory
  9. Appendix AArgentina Brokers' Survey
  10. Appendix B Argentina Voters' Surveys
  11. Appendix CVenezuela Voters' Survey and the Maisanta Database
  12. Appendix D India Voters' Survey
  13. References
  14. Index