Mobilizing for Elections: Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia Aspinall Edward
Mobilizing for Elections: Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia Aspinall Edward Politicians in Southeast Asia, as in many other regions, win elections by distributing cash, goods, jobs,…
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Mobilizing for Elections: Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia Aspinall Edward
Politicians in Southeast Asia, as in many other regions, win elections by distributing cash, goods, jobs, projects, and other benefits to supporters, but the ways in which they do this vary tremendously, both across and within countries. The book draws on an extensive, multi-country, multi-year research effort involving interactions with hundreds of politicians and vote brokers, as well as surveys of voters and political campaigners across the region. Mobilizing for Elections presents a new framework for analyzing variation in patronage democracies, focusing on distinct forms of patronage and different networks through which it is distributed.
Chapters explore how local machines in the Philippines, ad hoc election teams in Indonesia, and political parties in Malaysia pursue distinctive clusters of strategies of patronage distribution - what the authors term electoral mobilization