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Informationen zum Autor Susan Stokes is John S. Saden Professor of Political Science at Yale University and Director of the Yale Program on Democracy. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a past vice president of the American Political Science Association (APSA), and a past president of APSA's Comparative Politics Section. Her books and articles explore democratization and how democracy works in developing countries. They have been recognized with prizes from APSA, APSA's Comparative Democratization Section, and the Society for Comparative Research. Her research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the MacArthur Foundation, and Fulbright programs. Klappentext Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism studies distributive politics: how parties and governments use material resources to win elections. "This book advances a single broad theoretical point: vote brokers are central to any system of vote buying in mass elections. While many previous scholars have considered the role of vote brokers from one angle or another, what sets this book apart is that it provides a unified theoretical model of vote brokers. It is grounded effectively in the modern economic theory of agency, and the authors run it through a series of tests using both original primary and secondary sources. Brokers, Voters, and Clientilism will be a landmark for the next generation of studies." - Gary W. Cox, Stanford University "This book is a landmark contribution to positive as well as normative political economy of redistribution. Its treasure trove of facts, ideas, and analyses changes our understanding of this key issue and will reorient future research." - Avinash Dixit, Princeton University "More than a decade in the making, this volume was worth the wait. It brings together years of meticulous empirical work in several countries, careful theorizing, and a deft use of historical cases to produce what will surely be the most definitive and influential study of clientelism in the field." - Allen D. Hicken, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Zusammenfassung Brokers! Voters! and Clientelism studies distributive politics: how parties and governments use material resources to win elections. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Modalities of Distributive Politics: 1. Between clients and citizens: puzzles and concepts in the study of distributive politics; Part II. The Micro-Logic of Clientelism: 2. Gaps between theory and fact; 3. A theory of broker-mediated distribution; 4. Testing the theory of broker-mediated distribution; 5. A disjunction between the strategies of leaders and brokers?; 6. Clientelism and poverty; Part III. The Macro-Logic of Vote-Buying: What Explains the Rise and Decline of Political Machines?: 7. Party leaders against the machine; 8. What killed vote buying in Britain and the United States?; Part IV. Clientelism and Democratic Theory: 9. What's wrong with buying votes?...
