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UNHCR promotes voluntary repatriation as the preferred solution to refugee crises, but refugees' preferences about return vary widely and are poorly understood.
UNHCR promotes voluntary repatriation as the preferred solution to refugee crises, but refugees' preferences about return vary widely and are poorly understood.
Clientelism—the exchange of goods or services for political support—is typically thought to target poorer voters. Melani Cammett, Christiana Parreira, and Sami Atallah test whether that assumption holds when clientelist offers vary by type and value. Understanding who responds to different kinds of patronage matters for theories of political support, party strategy, and regime accountability in developing-country contexts.