Can campaign promises change voter behavior, even where clientelism and vote buying are pervasive? We elicit …

This study argues that economic vulnerability causes citizens to participate in clientelism, a phenomenon with various … typically have more resources for clientelism. Findings are observed not only during the election campaign, but also a full year …

We study the causes and consequences of patronage in Brazilian cities since the country's re-democratization. We test … patronage for public finances. Our data consist of the universe of public sector employees merged with their party affiliations …, and a dynamic regression discontinuity design is applied to disentangle patronage from the growing political participation …

evidence of the interconnection between two critical political components: state weakness and clientelism. State weakness … creates the right environment for clientelism to flourish. Clientelism sets in place a structure of incentives for politicians … and citizens that is detrimental to building state capacity. We show that vote buying, as a measure of clientelism, and …