Clientelism and Voting Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Benin

By Léonard Wantchekon. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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The Minimal Persuasive Effects of Campaign Contact in General Elections: Evidence from 49 Field Experiments (2017, background): “This is a proposition that future research could test by randomly assigning entire campaign strategies, such as by having a party campaign committee randomly assign which legislative districts they target or what strategy they pursue in each district (e.g., Wantchekon 2003).”
Do Get-Out-the-Vote Calls Reduce Turnout? The Importance of Statistical Methods for Field Experiments (2005, background): “See the section Implementation Errors and Remaining Discrepancies for more information about the relationship between the two studies. popular approach in the discipline (e.g., Howell and Peterson 2002 and Wantchekon 2003).”
Clientelism in Indian Villages (2015, result): “…but also some marked differences which we will argue are explicable with our model given the institutional context.6 Other papers that have explored evidence of clientelistic politics are Wantchekon (2003), Wantchekon and Fujiwara (2014), and Vicente and Wantchekon (2009) in West Africa.”
Vote Buying in Argentina (2004, background): “Instead the high-discount-rate approach relies on the idea that poor people are especially prone to discount heavily future consumption and that this propensity explains the link between clientelism and underdevelopment (see Scott 1969; Kitschelt 2000; Wantchekon 2003).”
Segregation, Ethnic Favoritism, and the Strategic Targeting of Local Public Goods (2018, background): “…to noncoethnics.3 For example, Carlson (2015) finds that Ugandan voters disproportionately reward the provision of services by coethnic politicians; Wantchekon (2003) finds that clientelist appeals are more effective when delivered by coethnics; Kramon finds that vote buying in Kenya is more…”
Can Informed Voters Enforce Better Governance? Experiments in Low-Income Democracies (2011, methodology): “Wantchekon (2003) randomized the form of political campaigns during Benin’s national election”
How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign (2013, neutral): “…a novel elicitation protocol, we collected information about the distributions of individual voters’ (multivariate) beliefs about the valence and ideological stance of both the incumbent and the main challenger through surveys both before and after the informational treatments were administered.”
Understanding Off-the-Books Politics: Conducting Inference on the Determinants of Sensitive Behavior with Randomized Response Surveys (2010, background): “…in a wave of scholarly production on phenomena such as corruption (cf. Golden and Chang 2001; Seligson 2002), vote buying and clientelism (cf. Wantchekon 2003; Stokes 2005), patronage and the politicization of the state (cf. Geddes 1994; Murillo and Calvo 2004), protest and collective…”