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Pressure, Favours, and Vote-buying: experimental evidence from Romania and Bulgaria / Mares, Isabela; Muntean, Aurelian; Petrova, Tsveta

Mares, Isabela	Journal Article
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This article examines the mix of non-programmatic strategies used by politicians to gain voter support in contemporary Eastern Europe. We use a mixed-method design that combines survey-based experiments and qualitative research in a paired comparison of localities in Romania and Bulgaria. Our article documents that the mix of clientelistic strategies differs across localities with different turnover rates. In both Romania and Bulgaria, we find that the use of clientelistic strategies that politicise state resources is higher in localities with long-term political incumbents.

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Pressure ; Experimental Evidence ; Favours ; Vote-buying ; Romania and Bulgaria

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What Makes a Good Politician? Democratic Representation, ‘Vote-Buying’ and the MLA Handbook in Nagaland, Northeast India / Wouters, Jelle JP

Wouters, Jelle JP	Journal Article
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In this article I attempt an ethnography of democratic representation in India by examining how ordinary villagers in the north-eastern state of Nagaland relate to their politicians, what they expect of them, and what yardsticks they adopt to evaluate their performance in office. I focus on the dialectical relationship between homegrown Naga political theory and praxis, and the specificities of Nagaland state and governance to show that the form democratic representation takes there is a reflection of historical particularities and the society’s own conception and normative imagination of its political self and sociality. Provincialising liberalist projections of democratic representation, the article contributes to a promising body of creative analysis that is paving the way for a much fuller and richer understanding of existing democratic life-worlds in South Asia.

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Democracy ; India ; Elections ; Nagaland ; Politicians ; Corruption ;
Democratic Representation ; Vote-buying

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