Receiving more, expecting less? Social ties, clientelism and the poor’s expectations of future service provision

Jöst, Prisca

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.106008

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“…86 Stokes (2005); Nichter (2008). 87 Mares and Young (2016); Jensen and Justesen (2014); Jöst and Lust (2022). 88 Piketty (2014, 745).…”

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confidence: 99%

Tycoon candidates, electoral strategies, and voter support: a survey experiment in South Africa

Justesen,

Markus

2024

Bus. Polit.

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Why do voters shun some business tycoons yet elect others into power? As structural conditions facilitate the entry of super-wealthy actors into politics, the differential electoral support across business elites suggests a puzzle. We conceptualize four mechanisms behind the popular support for “tycoon candidates”: competence signaling, framing, fame, and clientelism. To test their relative efficacy, we leverage an experiment embedded in a nationally representative survey in South Africa, an important developing democracy where certain tycoons are successfully running for office. We find that, across distinct electoral appeals by tycoon candidates, clientelism is particularly effective, especially for mobilizing support from the less affluent voters. Racial framing significantly decreases support among white voters. Meanwhile, tycoons’ competence signaling or fame do not help them at the ballot box. By identifying the micro-level underpinnings of voter support across tycoon candidates, our study contributes to the literatures on business and politics, voting behavior, and clientelism.

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“…86 Stokes (2005); Nichter (2008). 87 Mares and Young (2016); Jensen and Justesen (2014); Jöst and Lust (2022). 88 Piketty (2014, 745).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%