20
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
1 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Article: found
      Is Open Access

      Electoral Dividends from Programmatic Policies: A Theoretical Proposal Based on the Brazilian Case

      research-article

      Read this article at

      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          Recent controversies in the literature on the electoral effects of cash transfer programs reveal the limitations of traditional models associating public policies to voting. Why would beneficiaries reward parties for programmatic policies when the government has no control over the distribution of the benefits? Are they guided by short-term retrospective voting in favor of the incumbent without forming durable links? By studying the Brazilian case, based on the Bolsa Escola-Program, formulated by the PSDB, and the Bolsa-Família Program, formulated by the PT, I test different theories and propose an alternative approach. My thesis is that the long-term electoral effect of programmatic policies is a consequence of credit-claiming efforts made by the competing parties, resulting in reciprocity from voters. My argument is built on the examination of parliamentary deliberations throughout the formulation of these programs and on the analysis of public opinion surveys conducted in 2005, a transitional moment when there were beneficiaries of both programs, and in 2018, the year of the first presidential election with the Bolsa-Família Program being implemented with the PT as an opposition party. The data show that party leaders came to the defense of these social programs to varying degrees and in different moments of their terms in office and that these different mobilization strategies reflected on voting behavior.

          Related collections

          Most cited references76

          • Record: found
          • Abstract: not found
          • Article: not found

          An Economic Theory of Political Action in a Democracy

            Bookmark
            • Record: found
            • Abstract: not found
            • Article: not found

            Perverse Accountability: A Formal Model of Machine Politics with Evidence from Argentina

              Bookmark
              • Record: found
              • Abstract: not found
              • Article: not found

              Electoral Politics as a Redistributive Game

                Bookmark

                Author and article information

                Journal
                bpsr
                Brazilian Political Science Review
                Bras. political sci. rev.
                Associação Brasileira de Ciência Política (São Paulo, SP, Brazil )
                1981-3821
                2022
                : 16
                : 2
                : e0006
                Affiliations
                [1] Porto Alegre Rio Grande do Sul orgnameUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul orgdiv1Department of Political Science Brazil
                Article
                S1981-38212022000200201 S1981-3821(22)01600200201
                10.1590/1981-3821202200010005
                5b7fac05-5a4b-4f98-970b-6492ca028f96

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 02 February 2020
                : 26 April 2021
                Page count
                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 79, Pages: 0
                Product

                SciELO Brazil

                Categories
                Articles

                public policies,parliamentary debates,cash transfer programs,elections,Bolsa-Família Program

                Comments

                Comment on this article