Description
Calvo and Murillo consider the non-policy benefits that voters consider when deciding their vote. While parties advertise policies, they also deliver non-policy benefits in the form of competent economic management, constituency service, and patronage jobs. Different from much of the existing research, which focuses on the implementation of policy or on the delivery of clientelistic benefits, this book provides a unified view of how politicians deliver broad portfolios of policy and non-policy benefits to their constituency. The authors' theory shows how these non-policy resources also shape parties' ideological positions and which type of electoral offers they target to poorer or richer voters. With exhaustive empirical work, both qualitative and quantitative, the research documents how linkages between parties and voters shape the delivery of non-policy benefits in Argentina and Chile.
Explores how non-policy resources, including administrative competence, patronage, and activists' networks, shape both electoral results and which voters get what.
About the Author
Ernesto Calvo is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Government and Politics of University of Maryland-College Park. He is the author of Legislator Success in Fragmented Congresses in Argentina (Cambridge, 2014), Anatomia Politica de Twitter en Argentina, and La Nueva Politica de Partidos En La Argentina (2005). His research has been recognized with the Lawrence Longley Award and the Leubbert Best Article Award from the Representation and the Comparative Politics sections of the American Political Science Association. Maria Victoria Murillo is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Columbia University, New York. She is the author of Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America (Cambridge, 2001) and Political Competition, Partisanship, and Policy Making in Latin American Public Utilities (Cambridge, 2009). Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, and the Harvard Academy for Area Studies.
Reviews
'This complex and nuanced theory helps explain moderate party positions in Argentina and ideological differences in Chile. The level of analysis is impressive but requires readers to examine each part in detail. The summaries at the end of each chapter and the conclusion provide clear interpretations for those who are not familiar with the two countries or the types of statistical analyses.' M. L. Godwin, Choice
Book Information
ISBN 9781108739405
Author Ernesto Calvo
Format Paperback
Page Count 310
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 460g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 18mm
Explores how non-policy resources, including administrative competence, patronage, and activists' networks, shape both electoral results and which voters get what.
About the Author
Ernesto Calvo is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Government and Politics of University of Maryland-College Park. He is the author of Legislator Success in Fragmented Congresses in Argentina (Cambridge, 2014), Anatomia Politica de Twitter en Argentina, and La Nueva Politica de Partidos En La Argentina (2005). His research has been recognized with the Lawrence Longley Award and the Leubbert Best Article Award from the Representation and the Comparative Politics sections of the American Political Science Association. Maria Victoria Murillo is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Columbia University, New York. She is the author of Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America (Cambridge, 2001) and Political Competition, Partisanship, and Policy Making in Latin American Public Utilities (Cambridge, 2009). Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, and the Harvard Academy for Area Studies.
Reviews
'This complex and nuanced theory helps explain moderate party positions in Argentina and ideological differences in Chile. The level of analysis is impressive but requires readers to examine each part in detail. The summaries at the end of each chapter and the conclusion provide clear interpretations for those who are not familiar with the two countries or the types of statistical analyses.' M. L. Godwin, Choice
Book Information
ISBN 9781108739405
Author Ernesto Calvo
Format Paperback
Page Count 310
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 460g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 18mm
