Mobilizing Poor Voters - Machine Politics, Clientelism, and Social Networks in Argentina

Using network analysis and quantitative and qualitative data, this book explains why candidates use clientelistic strategies to mobilize poor voters.

List of contents

1. Politics on the ground: mobilizing poor voters in Argentina; 2. The microfoundations of political clientelism; 3. Building a party network: political, partisan and social networks in Argentina; 4. Moral hazard and asymmetric information in clientelistic networks; 5. The logic of perverse incentives; 6. Scaling up: the logic of perverse incentives at the subnational level; 7. Politics on the ground: a comparative perspective; 8. Conclusions: winners lose.

About the author

Mariela Szwarcberg is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Reed College. She specializes in the study of democracy with a geographic focus on Latin America. Her research has been supported and funded by the Fulbright Commission, the Social Science Research Council, and the Mellon Foundation. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Comparative Politics, the Latin American Research Review, Party Politics, Social Networks, Latin American Politics and Society, and the Women's Policy Journal of Harvard. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago.

Summary

Mobilizing Poor Voters describes and explains the emergence, maintenance, and disappearance of political, partisan, and social networks. Using data gathered through field research in Argentina, this book explains why candidates use clientelistic strategies to mobilize poor voters. Scholars studying clientelism, political parties, poverty, and democratic consolidation will find this book useful.

Product details

• Authors: Mariela Szwarcberg, Mariela (Reed College Szwarcberg, Szwarcberg Mariela
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9781107114081
• ISBN: 978-1-107-11408-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Structural Analysis in the Soc; Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences; Structural Analysis in the Soc
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Argentina, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Comparative Politics, Political campaigning and advertising, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies