{"product_id":"clients-and-constituents-jennifer-bussell-9780190945404","title":"Clients and Constituents: Political Responsiveness in Patronage Democracies","description":"Scholars of distributive politics often emphasize partisanship and clientelism. However, as Jennifer Bussell demonstrates in \u003cem\u003eClients and Constituents\u003c\/em\u003e, legislators in \"patronage democracies\" also provide substantial constituency service: non-contingent, direct assistance to individual citizens. Bussell shows how the uneven character of access to services at the local level-often due to biased allocation on the part of local intermediaries-generates demand for help from higher-level officials. The nature of these appeals in turn provides incentives for politicians to help their constituents obtain public benefits. Drawing on a new cross-national dataset and extensive evidence from India-including sustained qualitative shadowing of politicians, novel elite and citizen surveys, and an experimental audit study with a near census of Indian state and national legislators-this book provides a theoretical and empirical examination of political responsiveness in developing countries. It highlights the potential for an under-appreciated form of democratic accountability, one that is however rooted in the character of patronage-based politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Bussell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0190945400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190945404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/03\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Jennifer Bussell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44302052327679,"sku":"9780190945404","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0a8b1004-0908-4344-b0e2-fe882fd2c9b9.jpg?v=1695159242","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/clients-and-constituents-jennifer-bussell-9780190945404","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}