Search Results - subject:"clientelism"

Distributive politics and asymmetric participation

Araújo, Victor; Kerler, Philipp - 2025

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The price of poverty : inequality and the strategic use of clientelism in divided democracies

Cendales, Andrés; Guerrero Sierra, Hugo Fernando; … - In: Economies : open access journal 13 (2025) 7, pp. 1-33

probabilistic voting model that incorporates clientelism as a strategic tool employed by elite political parties to secure electoral … (GINI index) and poverty levels, rendering clientelism a rational and cost-effective mechanism of political control … the GINI index increase a 1.3 percent in the clientelism, even after accounting for endogeneity and dynamic effects. These …

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Institutional ambiguity and political control : the logic of para-bureaucratic clientelism in public service delivery

Chathayam, Vipin Kumar; Bathini, Dharma Raju - 2025

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The impact of massive protests on individual attitudes

Nupia, Oskar; Álvarez, Andrés - 2024

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Why do community members support clientelistic deals? : How collective voting decisions are taken in Uru Indigenous communities, Bolivia

Hirseland, Aline-Sophia - 2024

This article explores the practice of "instructed voting" prevalent among rural Indigenous communities in Bolivia, referring to the taking of collective electoral decisions. It adds to the debate on clientelistic bloc voting by revealing voters' motives for participating in clientelistic deals,...

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Tycoon candidates, electoral strategies, and voter support : a survey experiment in South Africa

Justesen, Mogens Kamp; Markus, Stanislav - In: Business and politics : B&P 26 (2024) 3, pp. 311-329

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Votes for work? : job patronage and electoral mobilization in Albania

Uberti, Luca J.; Imami, Drini; Mendola, Mariapia - 2026

We study the impact of an election campaign on the labor market outcomes of incumbent party supporters. Using unique data on voters' political preferences during a pre-election period in Albania and a DiD design that compares the evolution of outcomes among close neighbours, we show that...

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Democracy on ministerial selection

Lee, Dongil - 2026

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Regional favoritism : new data, larger sample, same pattern

Düben, Christian; Hodler, Roland; Raschky, Paul A. - 2026

Hodler and Raschky (2014) provide evidence for regional favoritism by documenting that subnational regions have more intense nighttime lights when they are the birth region of the country's current political leader than at other times. In this paper, we test the robustness of their findings...

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The economic returns of firms' political connections

Melo, Lucas Braga de; Pinho Neto, Valdemar Rodrigues de - 2026

This paper analyzes the economic returns to political connections in Brazilian local elections, focusing not only on traditional campaign donations but also on two novel channels: firms that provide goods or services to candidates during campaigns and firms' owners affiliated with parties within...

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