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Conditionality & Coercion - Electoral clientelism in Eastern Europe (Hardcover)
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Conditionality & Coercion - Electoral clientelism in Eastern Europe (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Democratization
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In many recent democracies, candidates compete for office using
illegal strategies to influence voters. In Hungary and Romania,
local actors including mayors and bureaucrats offer access to
social policy benefits to voters who offer to support their
preferred candidates, and they threaten others with the loss of a
range of policy and private benefits for voting the "wrong" way.
These quid pro quo exchanges are often called clientelism. How can
politicians and their accomplices get away with such illegal
campaigning in otherwise democratic, competitive elections? When do
they rely on the worst forms of clientelism that involve
threatening voters and manipulating public benefits? Conditionality
and Coercion: Electoral Clientelism in Eastern Europe uses a mixed
method approach to understand how illegal forms of campaigning
including vote buying and electoral coercion persist in two
democratic countries in the European Union. It argues that we must
disaggregate clientelistic strategies based on whether they use
public or private resources, and whether they involve positive
promises or negative threats and coercion. We document that the
type of clientelistic strategies that candidates and brokers use
varies systematically across localities based on their underlying
social coalitions. We also show that voters assess and sanction
different forms of clientelism in different ways. Voters glean
information about politicians' personal characteristics and their
policy preferences from the clientelistic strategies these
candidates deploy. Most voters judge candidates who use clientelism
harshly. So how does clientelism, including its most odious
coercive forms, persist in democratic systems? This book suggests
that politicians can get away with clientelism by using forms of it
that are in line with the policy preferences of constituencies
whose votes they need. Clientelistic and programmatic strategies
are not as distinct as previous have argued. Oxford Studies in
Democratization is a series for scholars and students of
comparative politics and related disciplines. Volumes concentrate
on the comparative study of the democratization process that
accompanied the decline and termination of the cold war. The
geographical focus of the series is primarily Latin America, the
Caribbean, Southern and Eastern Europe, and relevant experiences in
Africa and Asia. The series editor is Laurence Whitehead, Senior
Research Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
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