TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stokes, Susan C. 
AU  - Dunning, Thad
AU  - Nazareno, Marcelo 
AU  - Brusco, Valeria
TI  - Brokers, Voters, and clientelism: The puzzle of distributive politics 
SN  - 9781107660397
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York 
PB  - Cambridge University Press 
N2  - Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism addresses major questions in distributive politics. Why is it acceptable for parties to try to win elections by promising to make certain groups of people better off, but unacceptable - and illegal - to pay people for their votes? Why do parties often lavish benefits on loyal voters, whose support they can count on anyway, rather than on responsive swing voters? Why is vote buying and machine politics common in today's developing democracies but a thing of the past in most of today's advanced democracies? This book develops a theory of broker-mediated distribution to answer these questions, testing the theory with research from four developing democracies, and reviews a rich secondary literature on countries in all world regions
ER  -