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Mobilizing poor voters : machine politics, clientelism, and social networks in Argentina
- Title
- Mobilizing poor voters : machine politics, clientelism, and social networks in Argentina / Mariela Szwarcberg.
- Author
- Szwarcberg, Mariela Laura
- Publication
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- ©2015
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- xiii, 175 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Machine Politics, Clientelism, and Social Networks in Argentina Democracy has provided opportunities for political representation and accountability, but it has also created incentives for creating and maintaining clientelistic networks. Why has clientelism consolidated with the introduction of democracy? Drawing on network analysis, Politics on the Ground answers this question by describing and explaining the emergence, maintenance, and disappearance of political, partisan, and social networks in Argentina. Combining qualitative and quantitative data gathered during twenty-four months of field research in eight municipalities in Argentina, Politics on the Ground shows that when party leaders distribute political promotions to party candidates based only on the number of voters they mobilize, party leaders incentivize the use of clientelistic strategies among candidates competing to mobilize voters in poor neighborhoods. The logic of perverse incentives examined in this book explains why candidates who use clientelism succeed in getting elected and re- elected over time, contributing to the consolidation of political machines at the local level"--
- Series Statement
- Structural analysis in the social sciences ; 38
- Uniform Title
- Structural analysis in the social sciences ; 38.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-6044
- ISBN
- 9781107114081
- 110711408X
- 9781107534629
- 1107534623
- LCCN
- 2015014378
- 40025122389
- OCLC
- 907811169
- Author
- Szwarcberg, Mariela Laura, author.
- Title
- Mobilizing poor voters : machine politics, clientelism, and social networks in Argentina / Mariela Szwarcberg.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Structural analysis in the social sciences ; 38Structural analysis in the social sciences ; 38.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Other Standard Identifier
- 40025122389
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-6044