Distributive politics and electoral advantage in the 2022 Australian election

IF 3.2 2区 社会学 Q1 LAW
Ian McAllister, Nicholas Biddle
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Abstract

Distributive politics—or pork barreling—is prevalent across many political systems. It aims to influence the vote by directing discretionary spending to constituencies and/or groups of voters that are important for their re-election. We term this the objective dimension to pork barreling. However, we argue that for pork barreling to deliver rewards, voters must also be aware that they are gaining a special benefit from government—the subjective dimension. Using a unique Australian dataset that matches spending on electoral areas with a large scale national survey that asked voters if their area had received special benefits, we clarify the mechanisms behind pork barreling. Our results show that about one in five voters believed that their electorate had received additional benefits. Objectively, spending was disproportionately directed to government-held seats. Despite this largesse, we find that pork barreling had little or no effect on the vote in the 2022 Australian election.
2022年澳大利亚大选中的分配政治和选举优势
分配政治——或称“猪肉桶”——在许多政治体系中普遍存在。它的目的是通过将可自由支配的开支用于对其连任很重要的选区和/或选民群体,从而影响投票。我们把这称为“猪肉桶”的客观维度。然而,我们认为,为了让“猪肉桶”带来回报,选民也必须意识到,他们正在从政府那里获得特殊利益——主观层面。我们使用一个独特的澳大利亚数据集,将选区的支出与一项大规模的全国调查相匹配,该调查询问选民他们的地区是否获得了特殊福利,我们阐明了猪肉桶背后的机制。我们的调查结果显示,大约五分之一的选民认为他们的选民获得了额外的好处。客观地说,支出不成比例地流向了政府控制的席位。尽管如此,我们发现,在2022年澳大利亚大选中,猪肉桶对投票几乎没有影响。
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期刊介绍: Regulation & Governance serves as the leading platform for the study of regulation and governance by political scientists, lawyers, sociologists, historians, criminologists, psychologists, anthropologists, economists and others. Research on regulation and governance, once fragmented across various disciplines and subject areas, has emerged at the cutting edge of paradigmatic change in the social sciences. Through the peer-reviewed journal Regulation & Governance, we seek to advance discussions between various disciplines about regulation and governance, promote the development of new theoretical and empirical understanding, and serve the growing needs of practitioners for a useful academic reference.
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