Clientelism and Local Politics: Interactions Between Municipal Councilors and Voters in the State of Minas Gerais
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Summary: | This article addresses the subject of clientelism with reference to an unprecedented set of data resulting from a survey of 422 municipal councilors in 44 Brazilian municipalities. Our aim was to verify whether a propensity for clientelist behavior was uniformly distributed among the councilors surveyed and, in the event that it was not, to identify factors that could explain any variations. Our analysis revealed that clientelism – understood as the degree of exposure on the part of councilors to voter demands for individual benefits, and the councilors' willingness to attend to such demands by means of informal strategies – varies among councilors. Through a multivariate analysis of data, we concluded that these variations are related, as we expected, to such characteristics of the municipalities as population, poverty levels and political competition, and to such individual attributes of councilors as ideology and position in relation to the executive branch. We also conclude that there is an interaction between poverty and competition: competition seems to be more relevant than poverty to explain the observed variations, and its effect is intensified; the explanatory power of poverty is higher in the context of low political competition. |
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Clientelism and Local Politics: Interactions Between Municipal Councilors and Voters in the State of Minas GeraisClientelismrepresentationcity councilorslocal politicsinterest intermediationThis article addresses the subject of clientelism with reference to an unprecedented set of data resulting from a survey of 422 municipal councilors in 44 Brazilian municipalities. Our aim was to verify whether a propensity for clientelist behavior was uniformly distributed among the councilors surveyed and, in the event that it was not, to identify factors that could explain any variations. Our analysis revealed that clientelism – understood as the degree of exposure on the part of councilors to voter demands for individual benefits, and the councilors' willingness to attend to such demands by means of informal strategies – varies among councilors. Through a multivariate analysis of data, we concluded that these variations are related, as we expected, to such characteristics of the municipalities as population, poverty levels and political competition, and to such individual attributes of councilors as ideology and position in relation to the executive branch. We also conclude that there is an interaction between poverty and competition: competition seems to be more relevant than poverty to explain the observed variations, and its effect is intensified; the explanatory power of poverty is higher in the context of low political competition.Associação Brasileira de Ciência Política2019-01-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontext/htmlhttp://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1981-38212019000300201Brazilian Political Science Review v.13 n.3 2019reponame:Brazilian Political Science Reviewinstname:Associação Brasileira de Ciência Política (ABCP)instacron:ABCP10.1590/1981-3821201900030002info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessRocha,Marta MendesSouza,Augusto Carvalho deAraújo,Paulo Magalhãeseng2020-01-06T00:00:00Zoai:scielo:S1981-38212019000300201Revistahttps://brazilianpoliticalsciencereview.org/https://old.scielo.br/oai/scielo-oai.phpbpsr@brazilianpoliticalsciencareview.org||bpsr@bpsr.org.br1981-38211981-3821opendoar:2020-01-06T00:00Brazilian Political Science Review - Associação Brasileira de Ciência Política (ABCP)false |
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Clientelism and Local Politics: Interactions Between Municipal Councilors and Voters in the State of Minas Gerais |
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Clientelism and Local Politics: Interactions Between Municipal Councilors and Voters in the State of Minas Gerais |
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Clientelism and Local Politics: Interactions Between Municipal Councilors and Voters in the State of Minas Gerais Rocha,Marta Mendes Clientelism representation city councilors local politics interest intermediation |
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Clientelism and Local Politics: Interactions Between Municipal Councilors and Voters in the State of Minas Gerais |
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Clientelism and Local Politics: Interactions Between Municipal Councilors and Voters in the State of Minas Gerais |
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Clientelism and Local Politics: Interactions Between Municipal Councilors and Voters in the State of Minas Gerais |
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Clientelism and Local Politics: Interactions Between Municipal Councilors and Voters in the State of Minas Gerais |
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Clientelism and Local Politics: Interactions Between Municipal Councilors and Voters in the State of Minas Gerais |
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Rocha,Marta Mendes |
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Rocha,Marta Mendes Souza,Augusto Carvalho de Araújo,Paulo Magalhães |
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Souza,Augusto Carvalho de Araújo,Paulo Magalhães |
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Rocha,Marta Mendes Souza,Augusto Carvalho de Araújo,Paulo Magalhães |
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Clientelism representation city councilors local politics interest intermediation |
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Clientelism representation city councilors local politics interest intermediation |
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This article addresses the subject of clientelism with reference to an unprecedented set of data resulting from a survey of 422 municipal councilors in 44 Brazilian municipalities. Our aim was to verify whether a propensity for clientelist behavior was uniformly distributed among the councilors surveyed and, in the event that it was not, to identify factors that could explain any variations. Our analysis revealed that clientelism – understood as the degree of exposure on the part of councilors to voter demands for individual benefits, and the councilors' willingness to attend to such demands by means of informal strategies – varies among councilors. Through a multivariate analysis of data, we concluded that these variations are related, as we expected, to such characteristics of the municipalities as population, poverty levels and political competition, and to such individual attributes of councilors as ideology and position in relation to the executive branch. We also conclude that there is an interaction between poverty and competition: competition seems to be more relevant than poverty to explain the observed variations, and its effect is intensified; the explanatory power of poverty is higher in the context of low political competition. |
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