model, we argue these results provide credible evidence of the presence of clientelism rather than programmatic politics. …

It has been argued that since 2014, under the BJP-led central government, welfare benefits in India have become better …

West Bengal, India. Using household panel survey data spanning 1998-2008, we examine the consequences of clientelism for …

West Bengal, India. Using household panel survey data spanning 1998-2008, we examine the consequences of clientelism for …

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 …

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 … difficult to reconcile with standard models of redistributive politics. -- clientelism ; elite capture ; service delivery …