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MISSING THE POOREST IN RURAL AREAS? TARGETING LOW INCOME VOTERS IN MAYORAL ELECTIONS
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Amick, Joe |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Description | This article utilizes an original household survey of two regency-level elections in Indonesia to explore campaign targeting. It uses a list experiment to show that direct survey questions about accepting transfers from campaigns elicit honest responses from respondents in Indonesia. Although the relationship between income and whether a respondent accepted transfers from political campaigns decreases over the entire distribution of income, it increases initially, producing a curvilinear relationship between income and accepting transfers from campaigns. This article argues that the poorest voters face barriers to being targeted by campaigns. However, these barriers recede as they become relatively richer, at which point a negative relationship is found due to diminishing marginal utility of accepting these transfers. Finally, in-kind transfers, as opposed to cash transfers, target low-income voters more effectively. |
| Related Links | https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/D916DECCE8AB0E56D5D849B5A3EF917B/S1598240818000073a.pdf/div-class-title-missing-the-poorest-in-rural-areas-targeting-low-income-voters-in-mayoral-elections-div.pdf |
| Ending Page | 253 |
| Page Count | 25 |
| Starting Page | 229 |
| ISSN | 15982408 |
| e-ISSN | 22346643 |
| DOI | 10.1017/jea.2018.7 |
| Journal | Journal of East Asian Studies |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Volume Number | 18 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
| Publisher Date | 2018-05-03 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal of East Asian Studies Public Administration Vote Buying Distributive Politics Southeast Asia |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations Development Economics and Econometrics |
