Downstream
Vote-Bank Politics
Votes bought with immediate, visible transfers because the state is not trusted to deliver anything slower. Reform that pays off after the next election has no constituency.
Vote-bank politics trades long-term reform for immediate patronage — especially when voters don’t trust the state to deliver otherwise.
What keeps this stuck
- First-past-the-post incentives to mobilize narrow demographic blocs
- Short-term freebies (revdis) as poverty relief when institutions fail
- Upfront cash demands because state delivery is unreliable
- Identity groups voting as security networks to capture patronage
Is this a root problem worth fixing first?
How this connects
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