Screen LibraryNon-policy politics : richer voters, poorer voters, and the diversification of electoral strategies /
"Political parties can select the policies they offer, but have different reputations for competence, unequal capacity to mobilize activists, and different resources to deliver pork and patronage. These are crucial non-policy resources shaping their electoral success. We show how these non-poli...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2019. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Political parties can select the policies they offer, but have different reputations for competence, unequal capacity to mobilize activists, and different resources to deliver pork and patronage. These are crucial non-policy resources shaping their electoral success. We show how these non-policy resources also shape parties' ideological positions and which type of electoral offers they target to poorer or richer voters. Hence, non-policy politics shapes both electoral success and which voters get what. We describe how the book assesses voters' non-policy preferences with detailed survey and |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-296) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781108497008 1108497004 9781108739405 1108739407 |
| Index Number: | JL2698 |
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D778.364 D778.464 |
| Call Number: | D778.464/C169 |
| Contents: | Non-policy politics -- A demand-side model of non-policy politics -- Tracing political preferences and party organization in Argentina and Chile -- Mapping voter preference in Argentina and Chile -- Party organization: how activists reach voters -- Votersʹ preferences and partiesʹ electoral offers -- Party activists and their conditional effect on the vote -- Targeting patronage in Argentina and Chile -- Back to policy offers -- Non-policy politics and electoral responsiveness. |