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Brokers, voters, and clientelism, the puzzle of distributive politics, Susan C. Stokes, Thad Dunning, Marcelo Nazareno, Valeria Brusco

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Brokers, voters, and clientelism, the puzzle of distributive politics, Susan C. Stokes, Thad Dunning, Marcelo Nazareno, Valeria Brusco

Language

eng

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Brokers, voters, and clientelism

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electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

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881236898

Responsibility statement

Susan C. Stokes, Thad Dunning, Marcelo Nazareno, Valeria Brusco

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Cambridge Studies in Comparative PoliticsCambridge books online

Sub title

the puzzle of distributive politics

Summary

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--, Provided by Publisher

Table Of Contents

I - Modalities of Distributive Politics 1 - Between Clients and Citizens: Puzzles and Concepts in the Study of Distributive Politics II - The Micro-logic of Clientelism 2 - Gaps Between Theory and Fact 3 - A Theory of Broker-Mediated Distribution 4 - Testing the Theory of Broker-Mediated Distribution 5 - A Disjunction Between the Strategies of Leaders and Brokers? 6 - Clientelism and Poverty III - The Macro-logic of Vote Buying: What Explains the Rise and Decline of Political Machines? 7 - Party Leaders Against the Machine 8 - What Killed Vote Buying in Britain and the United States? IV - Clientelism and Democratic Theory 9 - What's Wrong with Buying Votes? Appendix A: Argentina Brokers' Survey Appendix B: Argentina Voters' Surveys Appendix C: Venezuela Voters' Survey and the Maisanta Database Appendix D: India Voters' Survey

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