Unlike much of the growing literature on political clientelism, this short paper contains mainly the author's general … clientelism has an impact on. It then analyses how its incidence changes with the process of development, and the kind of policy …

Why are the poor susceptible to clientelism, and what factors shield them from the influence of vote buying? We explore … channelled through informal networks. To test our theory, we build the informal, family-based network linkages between voters and …