Mobilizing for Elections (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781316513804)

Politicians in Southeast Asia, as in many other regions, win elections by distributing cash, goods, jobs, projects, and other benefits to supporters, but the ways in which they do this vary tremendously, both across and within countries. Mobilizing for Elections presents a new framework for analyzing variation in patronage democracies, focusing on distinct forms of patronage and different networks through which it is distributed. The book draws on an extensive, multi-country, multi-year research effort involving interactions with hundreds of politicians and vote brokers, as well as surveys of voters and political campaigners across the region. Chapters explore how local machines in the Philippines, ad hoc election teams in Indonesia, and political parties in Malaysia pursue distinctive clusters of strategies of patronage distribution - what the authors term electoral mobilization regimes. In doing so, the book shows how and why patronage politics varies, and how it works on the ground.

Author: Edward Aspinall, Meredith L. Weiss, Allen Hicken
ISBN-10: 1316513807
ISBN-13: 9781316513804
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/11/2022
Pages: 326
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.43lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d