TY - JOUR
T1 - Cultivating votes in rural Chile
AU - Couyoumdjian, Juan Pablo
AU - Londregan, John Benedict
PY - 2012/8
Y1 - 2012/8
N2 - In Chile's two-member legislative districts we show there are two groups of swing voters, one group for the first seat won by the governing coalition, another for the second. We build a model that allows us to identify the relative prevalence of these voters across communities. Using data on the allocation of discretionary agricultural loans, we find that communities with relatively many voters pivotal for the first seat receive more loans than they otherwise would have, but we find no systematic advantage for districts that are pivotal for the second seat.
AB - In Chile's two-member legislative districts we show there are two groups of swing voters, one group for the first seat won by the governing coalition, another for the second. We build a model that allows us to identify the relative prevalence of these voters across communities. Using data on the allocation of discretionary agricultural loans, we find that communities with relatively many voters pivotal for the first seat receive more loans than they otherwise would have, but we find no systematic advantage for districts that are pivotal for the second seat.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1939-9162.2012.00051.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1939-9162.2012.00051.x
M3 - Article
SN - 0362-9805
VL - 37
SP - 355
EP - 388
JO - Legislative Studies Quarterly
JF - Legislative Studies Quarterly
IS - 3
ER -