{"product_id":"clients-and-constituents-political-responsiveness-in-patronage-democracies-9780190945398","title":"Clients and Constituents: Political Responsiveness in Patronage Democracies","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jennifer Bussell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Comparative Politics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScholars of distributive politics often emphasize partisanship and clientelism. However, as Jennifer Bussell demonstrates in \u003cem\u003eClients and Constituents\u003c\/em\u003e, 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\u003cbr\u003ehighlights the potential for an under-appreciated form of democratic accountability, one that is however rooted in the character of patronage-based politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47889349148823,"sku":"9780190945398","price":10193.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780190945398.webp?v=1781175955","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/clients-and-constituents-political-responsiveness-in-patronage-democracies-9780190945398","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}