{"608026":{"#nid":"608026","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Bohlken\u2019s Article Published in the American Journal of Political Science","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/anjali-thomas-bohlken\u0022\u003EAnjali Thomas Bohlken\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESam Nunn School of International Affairs\u003C\/a\u003E, has an article titled \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/ajps.12374?af=R\u0022\u003ETargeting Ordinary Voters or Political Elites? Why Pork Is Distributed Along Partisan Lines in India\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026rdquo; published in the\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;American Journal of Political Science.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAbstract\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA key finding in the political economy literature is that political elites display partisan biases when allocating public resources. While previous studies posit that such biases are driven by politicians\u0026rsquo; motivations to target benefits directly to certain groups of ordinary voters, this article develops the argument that national politicians also target pork along partisan lines to win over politicians at lower levels of government whose cooperation they need to ensure the successful implementation of development projects. Using a quasi\u2010experimental design, the argument is tested with data on thousands of public works projects sanctioned by members of parliament (MPs)\u0026nbsp;in North India. The results show that, even controlling for unobserved differences in voter characteristics, MPs systematically favored the constituencies of co\u2010partisan state legislators when allocating pork specifically under conditions implied by the argument and not otherwise. These results shed new light on the reasons for partisan biases in resource allocation in multilevel systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Sam Nunn School of International Affairs is a unit of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/anjali-thomas-bohlken\u0022\u003EAnjali Thomas Bohlken\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESam Nunn School of International Affairs\u003C\/a\u003E, has an article titled \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/ajps.12374?af=R\u0022\u003ETargeting Ordinary Voters or Political Elites? Why Pork Is Distributed Along Partisan Lines in India\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026rdquo; published in the\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;American Journal of Political Science.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Anjali Thomas Bohlken, assistant professor in the Georgia Tech Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, has an article published in the American Journal of Political Science."}],"uid":"34508","created_gmt":"2018-07-23 19:52:05","changed_gmt":"2022-05-26 17:09:36","author":"oadebola3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-07-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-07-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"588172":{"id":"588172","type":"image","title":"Anjali Bohlken","body":null,"created":"1488396825","gmt_created":"2017-03-01 19:33:45","changed":"1488396825","gmt_changed":"2017-03-01 19:33:45","alt":"Anjali Bohlken","file":{"fid":"224151","name":"Anjali Bohlken_WebDirectory_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Anjali%20Bohlken_WebDirectory_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Anjali%20Bohlken_WebDirectory_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":37835,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Anjali%20Bohlken_WebDirectory_0.jpg?itok=URvB34vi"}}},"media_ids":["588172"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2998","name":"India"},{"id":"3717","name":"voting"},{"id":"3177","name":"politics"},{"id":"178444","name":"Anjali Thomas Bohlken"},{"id":"7473","name":"caste"},{"id":"178582","name":"elite"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane - Director of Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}