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Clients and Constituents - Political Responsiveness in Patronage Democracies (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,707
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Clients and Constituents - Political Responsiveness in Patronage Democracies (Hardcover): Jennifer Bussell

Clients and Constituents - Political Responsiveness in Patronage Democracies (Hardcover)

Jennifer Bussell

Series: Modern South Asia

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Scholars of distributive politics often emphasize partisanship and clientelism. However, as Jennifer Bussell demonstrates in Clients and Constituents, legislators in "patronage democracies" also provide substantial constituency service: non-contingent, direct assistance to individual citizens. Bussell shows how the uneven character of access to services at the local level-often due to biased allocation on the part of local intermediaries-generates demand for help from higher-level officials. The nature of these appeals in turn provides incentives for politicians to help their constituents obtain public benefits. Drawing on a new cross-national dataset and extensive evidence from India-including sustained qualitative shadowing of politicians, novel elite and citizen surveys, and an experimental audit study with a near census of Indian state and national legislators-this book provides a theoretical and empirical examination of political responsiveness in developing countries. It highlights the potential for an under-appreciated form of democratic accountability, one that is however rooted in the character of patronage-based politics.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Series: Modern South Asia
Release date: June 2019
Authors: Jennifer Bussell (Assistant Professor of Political Science)
Dimensions: 241 x 159 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-094539-8
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Comparative politics
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LSN: 0-19-094539-7
Barcode: 9780190945398

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