%0 Journal Article
%T £¿Por qu¨¦ el distanciamiento ideol¨®gico disminuye la provisi¨®n de bienes p¨²blicos?; una explicaci¨®n basada en el empleo clientelar
%A Gatica Arreola
%A Leonardo A
%J Estudios de econom¨ªa
%D 2012
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%R 10.4067/S0718-52862012000100002
%X this paper presents a model of political competition to explore the effect that the ideological distance between two political parties has over the provision of public goods. the main result argues that the ideological distance between parties and citizens has a negative relationship with the provision of public goods. in contrast with other models, the result is explained, neither by cooperation problems nor conflict between polarized groups, but because of the political profitability of clientelistic employment.
%K polarization
%K political competition
%K government efficiency
%K government employment
%K clientelism.
%U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-52862012000100002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en