Title Clients and constituents : political responsiveness in patronage democracies / Jennifer Bussell

Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource Series Modern South Asia Modern South Asia series. Contents Introduction: representation, distribution, and constituency service -- Political responsiveness in a patronage democracy -- The provision of constituency service -- Clients or constituents? A theory of assistance in patronage democracies -- Access to services in a patronage democracy: the case of india -- Partisan targeting and local distributive politics -- Local blocking and appeals for assistance -- Partisanship, the personal vote, and constituency service -- Which politicians respond? -- When is responsiveness partisan bias? -- Constituency service in comparative perspective -- Constrained accountability in patronage democracies Summary "Existing work suggests that legislators in countries like India should spend little time engaging with individual citizens and, if they do, should focus their attention on co-partisans. Yet, there is anecdotal evidence that these politicians actually spend substantial time assisting individual citizens with access to basic state services. In this book, I show that helping individual voters is a key part of these representatives' activities and that, in contrast with existing expectations, they do not generally discriminate against their non-copartisans in providing assistance. Yet, this constituency service differs from that observed in Western democracies, as it arises from the partisan nature of distribution at the local level. Thus, Indian politicians are more accountable to citizens than we previously expected, but this accountability is linked to, and constrained by, the character of patronage-based politics"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 20, 2019) Subject Patronage, Political -- India Patron and client -- India Democracy -- India POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General. Democracy Patron and client Patronage, Political Politics and government SUBJECT India -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064936 Subject India Form Electronic book LC no. 2019012888 ISBN 9780190945428 0190945427 9780190945435 0190945435 9780190945411 0190945419

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