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03329aam a2200445 i 4500 001 F28467E80C2C11EAA2E5F95597128E48 003 SILO 005 20191121010049 008 181221s2019 nyu b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018048645 020 $a 0190945400 020 $a 9780190945404 020 $a 0190945397 020 $a 9780190945398 035 $a (OCoLC)1080546057 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d L2U $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-ii--- 050 00 $a JQ281 $b .B87 2019 100 1 $a Bussell, Jennifer, $d 1975- $e author. 245 10 $a Clients and constituents : $b political responsiveness in patronage democracies / $c Jennifer Bussell. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xvi, 369 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Existing work suggests that legislators in countries like India should spend little time engaging with individual citizens and, if they do, should focus their attention on co-partisans. Yet, there is anecdotal evidence that these politicians actually spend substantial time assisting individual citizens with access to basic state services. In this book, I show that helping individual voters is a key part of these representatives' activities and that, in contrast with existing expectations, they do not generally discriminate against their non-copartisans in providing assistance. Yet, this constituency service differs from that observed in Western democracies, as it arises from the partisan nature of distribution at the local level. Thus, Indian politicians are more accountable to citizens than we previously expected, but this accountability is linked to, and constrained by, the character of patronage-based politics"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: representation, distribution, and constituency service -- Political responsiveness in a patronage democracy -- The provision of constituency service -- Clients or constituents? A theory of assistance in patronage democracies -- Access to services in a patronage democracy: the case of india -- Partisan targeting and local distributive politics -- Local blocking and appeals for assistance -- Partisanship, the personal vote, and constituency service -- Which politicians respond? -- When is responsiveness partisan bias? -- Constituency service in comparative perspective -- Constrained accountability in patronage democracies. 650 0 $a Patronage, Political $z India. 650 0 $a Patron and client $z India. 650 0 $a Democracy $z India. 651 0 $a India $x Politics and government. 650 7 $a Democracy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00890077 650 7 $a Patron and client. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01055220 650 7 $a Patronage, Political. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01055231 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 651 7 $a India. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210276 650 7 $a 89.51 political sociology. $0 (NL-LeOCL)077608984 $2 nbc 776 08 $i Online version: $a Bussell, Jennifer, 1975- author. $t Clients and constituents $d New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019] $z 9780190945411 $w (DLC) 2019012888 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20200318013320.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F28467E80C2C11EAA2E5F95597128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search