{"product_id":"clients-and-constituents-political-responsiveness-in-patronage-democracies-modern-south-asia-0190945400","title":"Clients and Constituents: Political Responsiveness in Patronage Democracies (Modern South Asia)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0190945400\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bussell, Jennifer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScholars of distributive politics often emphasize partisanship and clientelism. However, as Jennifer Bussell demonstrates in Clients and Constituents, legislators in \"patronage democracies\" also provide substantial constituency service: non-contingent, direct assistance to individual citizens. Bussell shows how the uneven character of access to services at the local level-often due to biased allocation on the part of local intermediaries-generates demand for help from higher-level officials. The nature of these appeals in turn provides incentives for politicians to help their constituents obtain public benefits. Drawing on a new cross-national dataset and extensive evidence from India-including sustained qualitative shadowing of politicians, novel elite and citizen surveys, and an experimental audit study with a near census of Indian state and national legislators-this book provides a theoretical and empirical examination of political responsiveness in developing countries. It highlights the potential for an under-appreciated form of democratic accountability, one that is however rooted in the character of patronage-based politics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51666595021088,"sku":"NEW0190945400","price":35.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/617U-bPslkL.jpg?v=1778941755","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/clients-and-constituents-political-responsiveness-in-patronage-democracies-modern-south-asia-0190945400","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}