Cultivating Votes in Rural Chile

dc.contributor.author	Couyoumdjian, Juan Pablo
dc.contributor.author	Londregan, John Benedict
dc.date.accessioned	2016-10-05T23:51:48Z
dc.date.available	2016-10-05T23:51:48Z
dc.date.issued	01/08/2012
dc.description.abstract	In Chile's two-member legislative districts we show there are two groups of swing voters, one group for the first seat won by the governing coalition, another for the second. We build a model that allows us to identify the relative prevalence of these voters across communities. Using data on the allocation of discretionary agricultural loans, we find that communities with relatively many voters pivotal for the first seat receive more loans than they otherwise would have, but we find no systematic advantage for districts that are pivotal for the second seat.
dc.identifier.citation	Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2012, vol. 37, n°3, p. 355-388
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11447/752
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-9162.2012.00051.x
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.subject	Pork-Barrel
dc.subject	Redistributive politics
dc.subject	Proportional representation
dc.subject	Buying supermajorities
dc.subject	Income-redistribution
dc.subject	Electoral-college
dc.subject	Government
dc.subject	Elections
dc.subject	Economy
dc.subject	Expenditures
dc.title	Cultivating Votes in Rural Chile
dc.type	Artículo

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