Non-policy politics : richer voters, poorer voters, and the diversification of electoral strategies /

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Author / Creator:Calvo, Ernesto, author.
Imprint:Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
©2019
Description:xiii, 299 pages ; 23 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11803751
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Other authors / contributors:Murillo, Maria Victoria, 1967- author.
ISBN:9781108739405
1108739407
9781108497008
1108497004
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Political parties can select the policies they offer, but have different reputations for competence, unequal capacity to mobilize activists, and different resources to deliver pork and patronage. These are crucial non-policy resources shaping their electoral success. We show how these non-policy resources also shape parties' ideological positions and which type of electoral offers they target to poorer or richer voters. Hence, non-policy politics shapes both electoral success and which voters get what. We describe how the book assesses voters' non-policy preferences with detailed survey and administrative data from Argentina and Chile, including a novel methodology for measuring partisan networks, and how those preferences shapes parties policy and non-policy offers"--