"Mona Lyne provides her theory of "the voter's dilemma": where structural conditions render quid pro quo, or clientelistic, politics viable on a national scale, voters have insufficient incentive to support politicians promising national public goods policies. Under these conditions, Lyne argues, electoral accountability falls prey to the same n-person prisoner's dilemma that plagues any other large-scale decentralized attempt to procure collective goods."--BOOK JACKET.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-288) and index.