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SUBMITTER: Berenschot W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6187067 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Comparative political studies 20180319 12
What kind of economic development curtails clientelistic politics? Most of the literature addressing this relationship focuses narrowly on vote buying, resulting in theories that emphasize the importance of declining poverty rates and a growing middle class. This article employs a combination of ethnographic fieldwork and an expert survey to engage in a first-ever, more comprehensive comparative study of within-country variation of clientelistic politics. I find a pattern that poorly matches the ...[more]