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The Political Economy of Clientelism*
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2013AbstractIn this paper, we argue that the political‐commitment problem provides an explanation for why much income redistribution takes an inefficient form, particularly employment in the public sector. A job is a credible way of redistributing when it provides rents (such as in situations with moral hazard), and employment is optimal ex post. Moreover,
Robinson, James A., Verdier, Thierry
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Dividend Clienteles, the Tax‐Clientele Hypothesis, and Utilities
Financial Review, 1990AbstractStudies of ex‐dividend day behavior have detected dividend‐clientele effects. The ratio of the ex‐day price drop to the dividend is typically less than unity and correlated with dividend yield. The tax‐clientele hypothesis attributes these effects to personal taxation.
David L. Skinner, John E. Gilster
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Religious Clientelism A theory
2021In today’s political science scholarship, the concept of clientelism often evokes an image of voters selling their votes to the highest bidder, where a substantial focus lies on the material nature of the exchange between patron and client. What remains scant is a theory of clientelism where non-material incentives are included as part and parcel of ...
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Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 2019
Abstract This article examines the Leningrad Opposition of 1925 not so much as a regionally based schism in the party opposed to Stalin’s increasing monopoly of power, but rather as a cohesive expression of the city’s frustration with NEP and the economic hardships it imposed on the most industrialized city in the Soviet Union in the first seven ...
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Abstract This article examines the Leningrad Opposition of 1925 not so much as a regionally based schism in the party opposed to Stalin’s increasing monopoly of power, but rather as a cohesive expression of the city’s frustration with NEP and the economic hardships it imposed on the most industrialized city in the Soviet Union in the first seven ...
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2013
INTRODUCTION: POVERTY OF NATIONS AND OF VOTERS Part II of this book constructs a model of clientelism that pivots around the behavior of types of individuals – party leaders, brokers, and voters. Part III examines macro-dynamics of clientelism: why it persists and what forces may undermine it, with an emphasis on historical developments at the ...
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INTRODUCTION: POVERTY OF NATIONS AND OF VOTERS Part II of this book constructs a model of clientelism that pivots around the behavior of types of individuals – party leaders, brokers, and voters. Part III examines macro-dynamics of clientelism: why it persists and what forces may undermine it, with an emphasis on historical developments at the ...
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2009
Abstract This article studies political clientelism. In the first section, the term clientelism can be defined as giving material goods in return for electoral support, where the criterion of distribution that the patron uses is simply: did you/will you support me? This section includes definitions of vote buying and patronage.
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Abstract This article studies political clientelism. In the first section, the term clientelism can be defined as giving material goods in return for electoral support, where the criterion of distribution that the patron uses is simply: did you/will you support me? This section includes definitions of vote buying and patronage.
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