Clients and Constituents: Political Responsiveness in Patronage DemocraciesScholars of distributive politics often emphasize partisanship and clientelism. However, as Jennifer Bussell demonstrates in Clients and Constituents, legislators in patronage democracies also provide substantial constituency service: non contingent, direct assistance to individual citizens. Bussell shows how the uneven character of access to services at the local level often due to biased allocation on the part of local intermediaries generates