Political Responsiveness in a Patronage Democracy

Jennifer Bussell
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This chapter draws on accounts from sustained, in-depth shadowing of Indian politicians, as well as large-scale politician surveys, to characterize the nature of politicians’ engagement with their constituents. It highlights the importance these politicians place on making time for citizen interactions and responding to requests—to the extent that high-level politicians spend, on average, a quarter of their time interacting with individual citizens. Critically, the primary focus of these contacts is requests for assistance with the same types of goods and services that are typically also requested of local politicians such as village council presidents, providing preliminary evidence that demands may at least partially originate from individuals’ failure to acquire these benefits at the local level—a topic to which the book later turns. Chapter 2 also shows that the individual benefits directly provided to citizens by high-level politicians are substantial.
惠顾民主中的政治回应
本章借鉴了对印度政治家持续深入的跟踪调查,以及大规模的政治家调查,以描述政治家与选民接触的性质。它突出了这些政治家对腾出时间与公民互动和回应要求的重要性——高层政治家平均花费四分之一的时间与公民个人互动。至关重要的是,这些联系的主要焦点是要求获得与村委会主席等当地政治家通常要求的相同类型的商品和服务的援助,这提供了初步证据,表明这些要求可能至少部分源于个人未能在地方层面获得这些利益——这是本书稍后将讨论的主题。第二章还表明,高层政治家直接向公民提供的个人利益是可观的。
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