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Political clientelism — which reflects strategic, discretionary, and targeted exchange of private goods and services for political support to the incumbent — has characterised distributive politics in the Global South for decades. The conditional nature of exchange between political parties and...
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– Rules versus discretionary budgets
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Clientelist Politics and Development
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Clientelist Politics and Development
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– Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America
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Clientelist Politics and Development
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– Social ties, clientelism and the poor’s expectations of future service provision
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Clientelist Politics and Development
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Part of Journal Special Issue
Clientelist Politics and Development
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Part of Journal Special Issue
Clientelist Politics and Development
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– From Harambee to the Constituency Development Fund
Why does clientelism persist? What determines how politicians signal responsiveness to voters and exert effort towards fulfilling campaign promises? This article explores how state capacity, legislative institutional strength, and established ideas about what politicians can do structure the...
The notion that social protection should be a key strategy for reducing poverty in developing countries has now been mainstreamed within international development policy and practice. Promoted as an integral dimension of the post-Washington Consensus all major international development agencies and...
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– Women, Conditional Cash Transfers, and Paid Employment in Southern Ecuador
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Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
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Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
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– Evidence from the Lesotho Child Grants Programme
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Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
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Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
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– The Role of Decentralization
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Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
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– Who Benefits and Who Pays?
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Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
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