Conditionality & Coercion: Electoral Clientelism in Eastern EuropeIn many recent democracies, candidates compete for office using illegal strategies to influence voters. In Hungary and Romania, local actors including mayors and bureaucrats offer access to social policy benefits to voters who offer to support their preferred candidates, and they threaten others with the loss of a range of policy and private benefits for voting the wrong way. These quid pro quo exchanges are often called clientelism. How can