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Author Calvo, Ernesto, author

Title Non-policy politics : richer voters, poorer voters, and the diversification of electoral strategies / Ernesto Calvo, Maria Victoria Murillo
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 299 pages)
Contents Non-policy politics -- A demand-side model of non-policy politics -- Tracing political preferences and party organization in Argentina and Chile -- Mapping voter preference in Argentina and Chile -- Party organization: how activists reach voters -- Votersʹ preferences and partiesʹ electoral offers -- Party activists and their conditional effect on the vote -- Targeting patronage in Argentina and Chile -- Back to policy offers -- Non-policy politics and electoral responsiveness
Summary Calvo and Murillo consider the non-policy benefits that voters consider when deciding their vote. While parties advertise policies, they also deliver non-policy benefits in the form of competent economic management, constituency service, and patronage jobs. Different from much of the existing research, which focuses on the implementation of policy or on the delivery of clientelistic benefits, this book provides a unified view of how politicians deliver broad portfolios of policy and non-policy benefits to their constituency. The authors' theory shows how these non-policy resources also shape parties' ideological positions and which type of electoral offers they target to poorer or richer voters. With exhaustive empirical work, both qualitative and quantitative, the research documents how linkages between parties and voters shape the delivery of non-policy benefits in Argentina and Chile
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Party affiliation -- Chile
Political parties -- Chile
Political participation -- Chile
Party affiliation -- Argentina
Political parties -- Argentina
Political participation -- Argentina
Party affiliation
Political participation
Political parties
Argentina
Chile
Form Electronic book
Author Murillo, Maria Victoria, 1967- author.
ISBN 9781108683708
1108683703