When and how do governments deliver public goods and services in response to citizen
preferences? We review the current literature on government responsiveness, with a focus …

It is frequently assumed that social protection can play a key role in positively transforming
state‐citizen relations in the global South. We examine the evidence with a focus on …

Prominent scholarship on foreign aid argues that aid can interfere with citizens' ability to
hold politicians accountable. One particular concern is that politicians receive undeserved …

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Mendelberg, Series Editor Mi grants and Machine Politics: How India’s Urban Poor Seek Repre …

Research on democracy has shed much light on two kinds of democratic politics: patterns of
voting and patterns of associational or movement politics. But there is growing recognition …

Unlike much of the growing literature on political clientelism, this short paper contains mainly
the author's general reflections on the broad issues of governance (or mis-governance …

Do citizens expect candidates who hand out goods at election time to provide services once
they take office? The literature provides competing views of the relationship between …

Motivation How do poor and marginalized people solve problems and claim rights and
entitlements in places affected by conflict and where state authority is contested …

India will soon be the world's most populated country and its political development will
shape the world of the 21st century. Yet Hindu nationalism–at the helm of contemporary …

Claim-making–the everyday strategies through which citizens pursue rights fulfilment–is
often overlooked in studies of political behavior, which tend to focus on highly visible, pivotal …