Bringing home the bacon? The conditional effect of pork barrel legislation and constituency service on friends-and-neighbors voting

• In Event: Voting Behavior in Europe

Brief Overview

The paper scrutinize Hungarian candidates’ home area advantage in Hungary, testing hypotheses on local candidates’ higher vote share and favorability ratings being driven by voters’ instrumental, clientelism and pork barrel-related considerations.

Author

• Dániel Kovarek, Central European University