Pressure,Favours, and Vote-buying: Experimental Evidence from Romania and Bulgaria |
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| Authors: | Isabela Mares Aurelian Muntean Tsveta Petrova |
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| Institution: | 1. Professor of Political Science, Columbia University, 420 West 118th Street, New York, NY 10027, USAim2195@columbia.edu admuntean@gmail.com Muntean@politice.ro tp2379@columbia.edu;3. Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, National School of Public and Social Administration (SNSPA), Expozi?iei 30A, room 703, Bucharest, Romania;4. European Institute, Columbia University, 420 West 118th Street, New York, NY 10027, USA |
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| Abstract: | This article examines the mix of non-programmatic strategies used by politicians to gain voter support in contemporary Eastern Europe. We use a mixed-method design that combines survey-based experiments and qualitative research in a paired comparison of localities in Romania and Bulgaria. Our article documents that the mix of clientelistic strategies differs across localities with different turnover rates. In both Romania and Bulgaria, we find that the use of clientelistic strategies that politicise state resources is higher in localities with long-term political incumbents. |
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