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Clientelistic politics and pro-poor targeting: Rules versus discretionary budgets

Mookherjee, Dilip; Nath, Anusha - 2021

Past research has provided evidence of clientelistic politics in delivery of programme benefits by local governments, or gram panchayats (GPs), and manipulation of GP programme budgets by legislators and elected officials at upper tiers in West Bengal, India. Using household panel survey data...

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Clientelistic politics and pro-poor targeting : rules versus discretionary budgets

Mookherjee, Dilip; Nath, Anusha - 2021

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How Do Voters Respond to Welfare Vis-a-Vis Public Good Programs? Theory and Evidence of Political Clientelism

Bardhan, Pranab K.; Mitra, Sandip; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using rural household survey data from West Bengal, we find that voters respond positively to excludable government welfare benefits but not to local public good programs, while reporting having benefited from both. Consistent with these voting patterns, shocks to electoral competition induced...

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Decentralization and local governance in developing countries : a comparative perspective

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Political Decentralization

Mookherjee, Dilip - 2015

I provide a critical overview of the literature on political decentralization. After reviewing first- and second …-generation theories of federalism, I describe recent empirical studies focusing mainly on determinants of capture and local government … attention in future research: a wider range of political distortions beyond capture and corruption; effects of decentralization …

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

Bardhan, Pranab; Mookherjee, Dilip - 2012

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...

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

Bardhan, Pranab K.; Mookherjee, Dilip - 2012

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Declining Clientelism of Welfare Benefits? Targeting and Political Competition based Evidence from an Indian state

Maitra, Pushkar; Mitra, Sandip; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

It has been argued that since 2014, under the BJP-led central government, welfare benefits in India have become better targeted and less prone to clientelistic control by state and local governments. Arguably this has helped to increase the vote share of the BJP vis-a-vis regional parties. We...

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Economic policies vs. identity politics : the rise of a right-wing nationalist party in India

Maitra, Pushkar; Mitra, Sandip; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - 2023

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Economic policies vs. identity politics: the rise of a right-wing nationalist party in India

Maitra, Pushkar; Mitra, Sandip; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - 2023

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