political clientelism in the delivery of social programmes in India, especially by allowing party leaders to bypass local …

unravelling of the Kerala model of pandemic management. We analyse the role and impact of clientelism and political hegemony of …

. The paper discusses when and why clientelism on the basis of party affiliation may arise. Operationally, party …-based clientelism is defined as a bias of public policy in favour of members of the governing political party. In a sample of local … governments in India, party-based clientelism is shown to exist in two out of four states and to be strongly affected by economic …