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7 - Why Party Worker Networks Spread Unevenly Across Settlements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2019

Adam Michael Auerbach
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American University, Washington DC
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Chapter 7 examines the formation of party worker networks, and the reasons why they vary so remarkably in their density and partisan distribution across settlements. The chapter presents quantitative evidence that key drivers of variation in party worker density are ethnic diversity and settlement population. Higher levels of social diversity increase the fractionalization of informal leadership within a settlement. Over time, parties attempt to bring slum leaders into their fold, increasing party network density in the process. The second is the population of the settlement. A slum’s population – the size of its “vote bank” – determines electoral incentives for parties to extend scarce patronage resources and positions to maximize votes.The chapter then takes an additional step backward, probing why settlements vary in their populations and levels of ethnic diversity in the first place. I find that idiosyncratic features of the urban geography and constraints over where poor migrants settle influence settlement size and ethnic diversity, providing analytical leverage in explaining their impact on party organization and, in turn, public services.

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Demanding Development
The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India's Urban Slums
, pp. 206 - 221
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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