Why do poor people often vote against their material interests? This puzzle has been famously studied within wealthy Western democracies, yet the fact that the poor voter paradox also routinely manifests within poor countries has remained unexplored. This book studies how this paradox emerged in India, the world's largest democracy. Tariq Thachil shows how arguments from studies of wealthy democracies (such as moral values voting) and the global south (such as patronage or ethnic appeals) cannot explain why poor voters in poor countries support parties that represent elite policy interests. He instead draws on extensive survey data and fieldwork to document a novel strategy through which elite parties can recruit the poor, while retaining the rich. He shows how these parties can win over disadvantaged voters by privately providing them with basic social services via grassroots affiliates. Such outsourcing permits the party itself to continue to represent the policy interests of their privileged base.
Extends the study of why poor citizens vote against their interests to the non-Western world
The first book to provide a theory of social services as an electoral strategy, explaining why parties use social services for electoral purposes, how services win votes, and when this strategy succeeds or fails
Offers a comparison of religious parties across a diverse set of cases (India, Egypt, Yemen and Indonesia)
Tariq Thachil, Yale University, Connecticut
Tariq Thachil is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Yale University. Thachil's doctoral dissertation received the 2010 Gabriel A. Almond Award for best dissertation in the field of comparative politics from the American Political Science Association and the 2010 Sardar Patel Award for best dissertation on modern India in the humanities, education, fine arts, or social sciences from the University of California, Los Angeles. His articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, Comparative Politics, Contemporary South Asia, and World Politics.
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Winner, 2015 Luebbert Book Award, Comparative Politics Section, American Political Science Association Winner, 2015 Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award, Political Organizations and Parties Section, American Political Science Association Winner, 2015 Gaddis Smith International Book Prize, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale Uni
评分Winner, 2015 Luebbert Book Award, Comparative Politics Section, American Political Science Association Winner, 2015 Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award, Political Organizations and Parties Section, American Political Science Association Winner, 2015 Gaddis Smith International Book Prize, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale Uni
评分Winner, 2015 Luebbert Book Award, Comparative Politics Section, American Political Science Association Winner, 2015 Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award, Political Organizations and Parties Section, American Political Science Association Winner, 2015 Gaddis Smith International Book Prize, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale Uni
评分Winner, 2015 Luebbert Book Award, Comparative Politics Section, American Political Science Association Winner, 2015 Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award, Political Organizations and Parties Section, American Political Science Association Winner, 2015 Gaddis Smith International Book Prize, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale Uni
评分Winner, 2015 Luebbert Book Award, Comparative Politics Section, American Political Science Association Winner, 2015 Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award, Political Organizations and Parties Section, American Political Science Association Winner, 2015 Gaddis Smith International Book Prize, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale Uni
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