Designing an incentive mechanism

This chapter explains the incentive mechanism for career-seeking elites. Impartial cost compensation ( chapter 5 ) is insufficient for the effective inducement for electoral mobilization. Through systematic analyses of interstate, intra/interparty, and individual portfolio allocation, this chapter reveals that the leaders had elaborated efficiency-based career incentives to induce elites to mobilize electoral support with smaller amounts of cost compensation. It also explores the conditions in which such a distributive pattern became salient, and reveals that efficiency-based incentives emerged especially in localities characterized by greater information asymmetry. The chapter also examines how the leaders had adjudicated electoral efficiency with intra/interparty politics.