This thesis consists of three chapters. The first two chapters offer game theoretical models for different linkages between political parties and the citizens: programmatic linkage and clientelistic linkage. Empirical implications of these models are discussed using real world d…
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The dissertation analyzes public sector employment in two developing democracies, Argentina and Turkey, to shed light on the political and socio-economic factors that shape how politicians and political parties distribute public jobs in a particularistic manner to their supporte…
This thesis introduces a new method for data collection on political elite networks using non-obtrusive web-based techniques. One possible indicator of elite connectivity is the frequency with which individuals appear at the same political events. Using a Google search scraping …
I study the effect of historic land inequality and presence of landed elites on electoral competition and public goods provision in Pakistan. First I use household data to document that landowners can make transfers to sharecropping tenants at a relatively low cost, thereby gain…