Tag: Clientelism

Free Download Adam Ziegfeld, "Why Regional Parties?: Clientelism, Elites, and the Indian Party System"
English | ISBN: 1107118689 | 2016 | 310 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Today, regional parties in India win nearly as many votes as national parties. In Why Regional Parties?, Professor Adam Ziegfeld questions the conventional wisdom that regional parties in India are electorally successful because they harness popular grievances and benefit from strong regional identities. He draws on a wide range of quantitative and qualitative evidence from over eighteen months of field research to demonstrate that regional parties are, in actuality, successful because they represent expedient options for office-seeking politicians. By focusing on clientelism, coalition government, and state-level factional alignments, Ziegfeld explains why politicians in India find membership in a regional party appealing. He therefore accounts for the remarkable success of India’s regional parties and, in doing so, outlines how party systems take root and evolve in democracies where patronage, vote buying, and machine politics are common.

Free Download Political Parties and Electoral Clientelism
by Sergiu Gherghina, Miroslav Nemčok
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031372948 | 142 Pages | True PDF | 5.42 MB

Free Download Isabela Mares, "Conditionality & Coercion: Electoral clientelism in Eastern Europe "
English | ISBN: 019883277X | 2019 | 352 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 10 MB
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?