Making policies matter: voter responses to campaign promises

Can voters in clientelist countries be swayed by programmatic promises? Results from a structural model and a field experiment disseminating candidate policy platforms in Philippine mayoral elections indicate that they can. Voters who received information about candidate policy promises were more li...

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Main Authors: Cruz, C, Keefer, P, Labonne, J, Trebbi, F
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2024