Technology and clientelist politics in India
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چکیده
This paper argues that new computer, smartphone, and universal ID technologies are reducing the incentives for political clientelism in delivery of social programmes India, especially by allowing party leaders to bypass local brokers credit-claim better service politicians deliver programmatic much more efficiently than past, with fewer diversions. Politicians responding these changed incentives, not surprisingly, investing money large programmes, supporting technological efforts improve their efficiency, increasing campaign expenditures advertise improvements link them at expense who used monopolize party–voter linkages.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Working Paper Series
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2624-9650']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35188/unu-wider/2021/093-1