Why Are Ethnic Parties Less Programmatic? Mixed-Method Evidence of Ethnic Endogeneity to Clientelistic Linkages

Bachus, Trevor

doi:10.1080/17449057.2020.1790154

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“…Dense social ties to coethnics may make it easier to reward compliance and sanction defection (Habyarimana et al 2009). Relatedly, coethnic social networks facilitate the ability of clientelist brokers to monitor their clients' electoral behavior (Bachus 2020), though others counter that brokers often serve multiple ethnic networks and may not exhibit particularly strong coethnic preferences (Auerbach and Thachil 2018). Coethnic social networks may also facilitate the spread of information regarding the group's programmatic preferences (Christakis and Fowler 2013).…”

Section: Instrumental Foundations Of Coethnicitymentioning

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Coethnicity Beyond Clientelism: Insights from an Experimental Study of Political Behavior in Lebanon

Cammett

Kruszewska-Eduardo

Parreira

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Politics and Religion

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A large literature finds that coethnicity primarily shapes voter behavior through material exchanges, particularly clientelism. Yet identity groups provide distinct psychological and social benefits that also compel people to vote based on coethnicity. Does coethnicity matter for vote choice, net of instrumental considerations? We address this question using a conjoint experiment in Lebanon, which asked a nationally representative sample of citizens to choose between potential candidates in national elections. We find that coethnicity is the single strongest predictor of electoral support, more important than party affiliation, provision of clientelism, or programmatic platform. Coethnicity does not significantly alter perceptions of candidates who provide clientelism, including high-value goods like patronage employment. Furthermore, citizens who feel closer to their ethnic group are more likely to vote on the basis of coethnicity, as are those with lower levels of trust in state institutions. Collectively, these findings suggest that coethnic voting in diverse polities is not driven solely by clientelism, but also by less immediately material concerns about security and belonging.

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Section: Instrumental Foundations Of Coethnicitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Coethnicity Beyond Clientelism: Insights from an Experimental Study of Political Behavior in Lebanon

Cammett

Kruszewska-Eduardo

Parreira

et al. 2021

Politics and Religion

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Shaping Ethnoracial Identities: State-Society Relations and Programmatic Differentiation in the Andes

Giusti-Rodríguez

2024

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Under what circumstances do ethnoracial groups become programmatically differentiated? This article argues that ethnoracial programmatic differentiation results from major transformations in groups’ access to state power. Access to state power conditions ethnoracial groups’ perceptions of the state and their support for state-centric programmatic policies. As historically-excluded groups gain access to power, and historically-advantaged ones lose theirs, programmatic differentiation increases, the product of shifting relationships with the state. I evaluate this argument using survey data from the Andean region and demonstrate that ethnoracial groups have become programmatically differentiated where the indigenous have recently gained political power, but not elsewhere despite widespread structural inequalities and extensive indigenous organizational capacity. The findings shed light on why ethnoracialized preferences vary across contexts in unexpected ways.

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Why Are Ethnic Parties Less Programmatic? Mixed-Method Evidence of Ethnic Endogeneity to Clientelistic Linkages

Cited by 2 publications

References 42 publications

Coethnicity Beyond Clientelism: Insights from an Experimental Study of Political Behavior in Lebanon

Coethnicity Beyond Clientelism: Insights from an Experimental Study of Political Behavior in Lebanon

Shaping Ethnoracial Identities: State-Society Relations and Programmatic Differentiation in the Andes

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