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Populism and Patronage - Why Populists Win Elections in India, Asia, and Beyond (Hardcover)
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Populism and Patronage - Why Populists Win Elections in India, Asia, and Beyond (Hardcover)
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Populist rule is bad for democracy, yet in country after country,
populists are being voted into office. Populism and Patronage shows
that the populists such as Indira Gandhi and Narendra Modi win
elections when the institutionalized ties between non-populist
parties and voters decay. Yet, the explanations for this decay
differ across different types of party system. Populism and
Patronage focuses on the particular vulnerability of
patronage-based party systems to populism. Patronage-based systems
are ones in which parties depend on the distribution of patronage
through a network of brokers to mobilize voters. Drawing on
principal agent theory and social network theory, this book argues
that an increase in broker autonomy weakens the ties between
patronage parties and voters, making latter available for direct
mobilization by populists. Decentralization is thus a major factor
behind populist success in patronage democracies. The volume argues
that populists exploit the breakdown in national patronage networks
by connecting directly with the people through the media and mass
rallies, avoiding or minimizing the use of deeply-institutionalized
party structures.This book not only reinterprets the recurrent
appeal of populism in India, but also offers a more general theory
of populist electoral support that is tested using qualitative and
quantitative data on cases from across Asia and around the world,
including Indonesia, Japan, Venezuela, and Peru.
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