Buying loyalty: Volatile voters and electoral clientelism
نویسندگان
چکیده
Electoral volatility and clientelism were traditionally analysed through the lenses of clientelistic behaviour by political actors. However, we know very little about importance for formation attitudes towards within electorate. This article addresses that gap analysing extent to which volatile voters are more likely accept electoral as a practice. We bring evidence from Romania, is crucial case due its extensive use in elections over time high volatility. The analysis uses individual-level data survey conducted on national representative sample 4316 respondents 2021. Contrary theoretical expectations, findings illustrate loyal easier, holds when controlling variables such targeting awareness, interest, income, or education. These results have important implications study voting behaviour.
منابع مشابه
Electoral Control with Behavioral Voters
We present a model of electoral control with behavioral voters. The model captures two main regularities of voting behavior found in empirical studies: voters are forgetful and are in uenced by extraneous events beyond the control of public o cials (e.g. rain fall). Speci cally, we assume the voters' propensities to reelect the incumbent is governed by a stochastic reinforcement process instead...
متن کاملBrand Loyalty – Influencing Consumer Buying Behaviour
A seller in showroom does not know that what goes in mind of consumer when the consumer enters the shop to buy TV. Seller has to rely on trial and error basis this research will tell what factor consumer considers so that he comes to a particular shop. Thus he can convert maximum of potential customer into buyers if he knows what exactly triggers the customer decision. The research discloses th...
متن کاملDesigning multi-level studies: sampling voters and electoral contexts
Every two years in the US, 435 congressional elections take place that scholars study using data from the National Election Studies (NES) survey of the American electorate. With a focus on sampling, this article explores two issues: (1) How best to design a national election study if the aim is to understand voting behavior within and across subnational contexts; and (2) How, by comparison, the...
متن کاملMeasuring Vote-Selling: Field Evidence from the Philippines
Many developing democracies struggle with vote-buying and other forms of clientelism in electoral politics. Clientelism has been associated with reduced accountability and trust, increased corruption, and inefficient public administration (Stokes 2005; Desposato 2007; Keefer 2007; Kitschelt et al. 2010; Hicken and Simmons 2008; Hicken 2011; Stokes et al. 2013). In response, many government agen...
متن کاملA model of electoral competition with abstaining voters
This work studies a two-candidate single-dimensional Downsian voting model with variable voter turnout. I consider a one-shot game between two candidates, where the payoffs of the candidates are their vote shares, and the strategy set of each candidate is a one-dimensional set of policy positions. The utility that a voter attributes to a candidate is linear in both the absolute distance between...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Politics
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0032-3268']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/02633957221132707