Constituency Service in Comparative Perspective

Jennifer Bussell
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Chapter 11 considers the extent to which we should expect to observe similar dynamics of distributive politics in other parts of the world. It draws on a range of cross-national data to show that the contextual characteristics supporting constituency service—the dynamics of patronage democracy, difficulty in access to public benefits, and partisan allocation of benefits at local levels, accompanied by the presence of high-level representatives with little ability to monitor individual electoral behavior—coexist across a range of democracies around the world. It offers evidence to suggest that high-level politicians in countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America also engage in individual-level distribution to build a personal vote, rather than support for their party, and that highly partisan distribution by local operatives may ironically heighten their incentives to assist constituents in a nonpartisan manner. Thus, India is an exemplar of a common trend, rather than a global outlier.
比较视角下的选区服务
第11章考虑了我们应该期望在世界其他地区观察到类似的分配政治动态的程度。它利用了一系列跨国数据来表明,支持选区服务的背景特征——赞助民主的动态、获得公共利益的困难、地方层面的党派利益分配,以及几乎没有能力监督个人选举行为的高级代表的存在——在世界各地的一系列民主国家中并存。它提供的证据表明,非洲、亚洲和拉丁美洲国家的高层政治家也参与个人层面的分配,以建立个人投票,而不是支持他们的政党,具有讽刺意味的是,地方工作人员的高度党派分配可能会提高他们以无党派方式帮助选民的动机。因此,印度是一种共同趋势的典范,而不是全球的异类。
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