Political clientelism and capture : theory and evidence from West Bengal, India

Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee

We provide a theory of political clientelism, which explains sources and determinants of political clientelism, the relationship between clientelism and elite capture, and their respective consequences for allocation of public services, welfare, and empirical measurement of government accountability in service delivery. Using data from household surveys in rural West Bengal, we argue that the model helps explain observed impacts of political reservations in local governments that are difficult to reconcile with standard models of redistributive politics. -- clientelism ; elite capture ; service delivery ; government accountability ; corruption, political reservations

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Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	Bardhan, Pranab K. ; Mookherjee, Dilip
Publisher:	Helsinki : WIDER
Subject:	Indien \| India \| Patronage \| Clientelism \| Wahlverhalten \| Voting behaviour \| Interessenpolitik \| Lobbying \| Kommunale Ausgaben \| Local government expenditure \| Öffentliche Dienstleistung \| Public services

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 36 S., 360,77 KB)
Series:	Working paper / World Institute for Development Economics Research. - Helsinki : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ISSN 1798-7237, ZDB-ID 2548001-7. - Vol. 2012/97
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader
ISBN:	978-92-9230-561-1
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/81075 [Handle]
Classification:	H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government ; H42 - Publicly Provided Private Goods ; H76 - State and Local Government: Other Expenditure Categories ; O23 - Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Development
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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