Privileging One’s Own? Voting Patterns and Politicized Spending in India

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How do politicians allocate public resources? Despite the extensive literature on distributive politics, we have limited micro-level evidence for why and under what circumstances choose various allocation strategies. India’s discretionary constituency development scheme (MPLADS) provides an excellent opportunity to study spending choices of individual politicians. Drawing original dataset linking voting patterns across 227,507 villages in 2009 general elections MPLADS allocations 2009–2014, find that generally channel more projects resources vote them higher numbers. We then leverage a natural experiment created by delimitation (redistricting) electoral boundaries 2008 provide causal are driven short-term incentives. Finally, show differ type party has brought politician power. Our findings contribute growing heterogeneity politicians’ distributional choices.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Comparative Political Studies

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['0010-4140', '1552-3829']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140221109430