Non-policy politics: richer voters, poorer voters, and the diversification of electoral strategies

By:

Calvo, Ernesto

Contributor(s):

Murillo, Maria Victoria

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge University Press New York 2019Description: xiii, 299 pISBN:

9781108739405

Subject(s):

Political participation

DDC classification:

324.282 CAL

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.

List(s) this item appears in: Public Policy & General Management | Operation & quantitative Techniques

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute of Management LRC General Stacks	Public Policy & General Management	324.282 CAL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		002536

Table of Contents
Prologue
1. Non-policy politics
2. A demand-side model of non-policy politics
3. Tracing political preferences and party organization in Argentina and Chile
4. Mapping voter preference in Argentina and Chile:
5. Party organization: how activists reach voters
6. Voters' preferences and Pparties' electoral offers
7. Party activists and their conditional effect on the vote
8. Targeting patronage in Argentina and Chile
9. Back to policy offers
10. Non-policy politics and electoral responsiveness
11. Appendices.

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.

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