The discerning voter
Party–voter linkages and local distribution under multilevel governance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6314828 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Schneider (0000-0002-8385-345X, Pitzer College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 191-202 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Party Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1354-0688 • E-ISSN: 1460-3683 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1354068818761195 |
| OpenAlex | W2791181763 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 32 |
What shapes voters’ expectations of receiving private benefits and local public goods in developing world democracies? Models of instrumental voting suggest that voters’ expectations are shaped by co-partisanship; however, this work does not consider the calculations that voters make in multilevel systems where different types of goods are allocated by different tiers of government. In this article, I argue that voters condition their expectations of private benefits on co-partisan ties with the local leader, but only do so with respect to local public goods when the local leader is aligned with the state government that controls the allocation of pork barrel spending. I test my argument with a vignette experiment conducted in rural India that randomly assigns the partisan affiliation of real village politicians and find empirical support for the argument. I also find suggestive evidence of strategic voting in local elections towards leaders aligned with the ruling party
Argument (complex analysis · Corporate governance · Distribution (mathematics · Economics · Government (linguistics · Local government · Microeconomics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Private good · Public economics · Public good · Vignette · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America · Public Administration · Social Capital and Networks · Social Psychology
Who Gets Credit? Citizen Responses to Local Public Goods
Do local leaders prioritize the poor
The electoral bias
Do local leaders know their voters? A test of guessability in India
Rethinking the Study of Electoral Politics in the Developing World
The program-to-campaign linkage
Motivations for partisan attachment in the developing world
Clientelism and portfolio diversification
Do local officials know something we don’t? Decentralization of targeted transfers in Albania
Internal and External Validity
The Politics of Public Good Provision
Why Ethnic Parties Succeed
Democratization from Above
Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism
Response strategies for coping with the cognitive demands of attitude measures in surveys
Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa
Gaining Access to Public Services and the Democratic State in India
Federal Arrangements and the Provision of Public Goods in India
Claiming the State
Ethnic Voting and Accountability in Africa
Electoral Politics as a Redistributive Game
The Partisan Heuristic in Low-Information Elections
Unpacking Ethnic Preferences
Partisan Cues and Vote Choice in New Multiparty Systems
When Parties Meet Voters
Why Vote with the Chief? Political Connections and Public Goods Provision in Zambia
An Informational Rationale for Political Parties
Who Delivers? Partisan Clients in the Argentine Electoral Market
Information and Ethnic Politics in Africa
Lacking Information or Condoning Corruption
Inequality and Political Clientelism
The Logic of the Survey Experiment Reexamined
Party systems, political cleavages and electoral volatility in India
Ethnic Quotas and Political Mobilization
Crossing the Line
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |