Political Responsiveness in Patronage Democracies
by
Jennifer Bussell
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Scholars of distributive politics often emphasize partisanship and clientelism. However, as Jennifer Bussell demonstrates in Clients and Constituents, legislators in "patronage democracies" also provide substantial constituency service: non-contingent, direct assistance to individual citizens. Bussell...