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Land, power and technology : essays on political economy and historical development

Kitamura, Shuhei - 2016

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Patronage and ideology in electoral behavior : evidence from Egypt's first presidential elections

Al-Ississ, Mohamad; Atallah, Samer - In: European journal of political economy 37 (2015), pp. 241-248

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Just hire your spouse! : evidence from a political scandal in Bavaria

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - In: European journal of political economy 38 (2015), pp. 42-54

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Buying votes versus supplying public services : political incentives to under-invest in pro-poor policies

Khemani, Stuti - In: Journal of development economics 117 (2015), pp. 84-93

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Just hire your spouse! : evidence from a political scandal in Bavaria

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2014

We investigate a case of political favoritism. Some members of the Bavarian parliament hired relatives as office employees who were paid using taxpayers' money. The family scandal was a hot issue in the German media because of the upcoming state and federal elections. We examine whether being...

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Patronage politics and the development of the welfare state : confederate pensions in the American South

Eli, Shari; Salisbury, Laura - 2015

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Are Swing Voters Instruments of Democracy or Farmers of Clientelism? Evidence from Ghana

Lindberg, Staffan I. - 2010

– the literatures on development, democracy, and political clientelism – to properly situate the swing voter as …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140554

Clientelism and Vote Buying : Lessons from Field Experiments in African Elections

Vicente, Pedro C. - 2010

Electoral clientelism and vote buying are widely perceived as major obstacles to economic development. This is because … they may limit the provision of public goods. In this paper, we review the literature on clientelism and vote buying and … countries. Clientelism and vote buying seem to be effective and to enjoy widespread electoral support. The results suggest that …

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Politics in Poor Places? Clientelism and Elections in Democracies

Golden, Miriam A. - 2020

We review a decade of literature on clientelism, a central topic in the study of developing democracies. We define … clientelism as the discretionary distribution of public resources by politicians. We distinguish clientelism that occurs in the … pre-electoral period (electoral clientelism) from that which occurs between elections (welfare clientelism). We provide …

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Does Electoral Competition Curb Party Favoritism?

Curto-Grau, Marta - 2017

We study whether incumbents facing uncontested elections channel public spending towards co‐partisan officials more than is the case of incumbents that are worried about their chances of re‐election. To do so, we draw on data detailing capital transfers allocated by Spanish regions to local...

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