Distributive Politics in Public Goods Network: Implicit Logrolling by Agenda Setting

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kengo Kurosaka
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Distributive Politics

Distribution or Diversion? Distribution of Local Public Goods in the Presence of Clientelist Brokers

2020 ◽  
pp. 106591292090380
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Carlson
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Distributive Politics ◽  
Local Public Goods ◽  
Unexpected Result ◽  
Electoral Outcomes

In this article, I argue that, in clientelist regimes, money officially allocated to local public goods will sometimes be diverted to private handouts, and that the extent of diversion will be systematically correlated with electoral outcomes. I show that allocated funds are more likely to translate into local public goods in opposition areas and the incumbent’s ethnic core. Diversion of funds is greatest in areas outside the ethnic core that are nevertheless won by the regime. This is consistent with a model in which brokers tasked with delivering non-coethnic voters to the regime divert funds for this purpose. As a result of extensive diversion in loyal non-coethnic districts, these voters are significantly less likely to see completed local public goods projects than either core voters or those who oppose the regime. This unexpected result suggests that the behavior of local brokers may be responsible for a number of puzzling findings in the distributive politics literature.

scholarly journals Who Benefits? How Local Ethnic Demography Shapes Political Favoritism in Africa

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Janina Beiser-McGrath ◽  
Carl Müller-Crepon ◽  
Yannick I. Pengl
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Distributive Politics ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Excludable Public Goods ◽  
Geographic Data

Abstract Empirical studies show that many governments gear the provision of goods and services towards their ethnic peers. This article investigates governments’ strategies to provide ethnic favors in Africa. Recent studies of ethnic favoritism find that presidents' ethnic peers and home regions enjoy advantages, yet cannot disentangle whether goods are provided to entire regions or co-ethnic individuals. This article argues that local ethnic demography determines whether governments provide non-excludable public goods or more narrowly targeted handouts. Where government co-ethnics are in the majority, public goods benefit all locals regardless of their ethnic identity. Outside of these strongholds, incumbents pursue discriminatory strategies and only their co-ethnics gain from favoritism. Using fine-grained geographic data on ethnic demographics, the study finds support for the argument's implications in the local incidence of infant mortality. These findings have important implications for theories of distributive politics and conflict in multi-ethnic societies.

Mood and cooperation in a public goods dilemma

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Parks ◽  
Blythe Duell ◽  
Larry Sanna
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods

public goods

2008 ◽  
pp. 739-747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnar Sandmo
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods
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