Non-Policy Politics

Non-Policy Politics

by Ernesto Calvo, Maria Victoria Murillo

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"Political parties can select the policies they offer, but have different reputations for competence, unequal capacity to mobilize activists, and different resources to deliver pork and patronage. These are crucial non-policy resources shaping their electoral success. We show how these non-policy resources also shape parties' ideological positions and which type of electoral offers they target to poorer or richer voters. Hence, non-policy politics shapes both electoral success and which voters get what. We describe how the book assesses voters' non-policy preferences with detailed survey and administrative data from Argentina and Chile, including a novel methodology for measuring partisan networks, and how those preferences shapes parties policy and non-policy offers"--

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    How does the concept of "non-policy politics"—such as patronage, party reputation, and mobilization capacity—shift your traditional understanding of how political campaigns are actually won and lost?

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    Calvo and Murillo argue that a party's non-policy resources heavily influence the ideological positions they ultimately adopt; in your experience, do you see parties changing their core beliefs to match their organizational strengths, or do their organizational strengths force them into certain ideological corners?

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    The book explores how different electoral offers are targeted toward poorer versus richer voters; how have you observed this dynamic playing out in local or national elections you’ve followed?

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