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Technology and clientelist politics in India

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This paper argues that new computer, smartphone, and universal ID technologies are reducing the incentives for political clientelism in the delivery of social programmes in India, especially by allowing party leaders to bypass local brokers to credit-claim for better service delivery and allowing politicians to deliver programmatic service delivery much more efficiently than in the past, with fewer diversions.

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  • Steven I. Wilkinson, 2021. "Technology and clientelist politics in India," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2021-153, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    1. Heath, Oliver & Tillin, Louise & Mishra, Jyoti & Kumar, Sanjay & Venkateswaran, Sandhya, 2025. "Poor health: Credit and blame attribution in India’s multi-level democracy," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 185(C).

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