In the Cambodian national elections in 2013, the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) experienced a strong surge in support, finishing a close second to the long-incumbent Cambodian People’s Party (CPP). Whilst the CNRP campaigned on an anti-money politics, rights-based agenda, the CPP has relied on gift-giving practices to maintain links with voters. This article explores changing popular conceptions of provision to assess to what extent a democratic, rights-based conscience in Cambodia has emerged under the current neo-patrimonial regime. Building on qualitative interviews with 192 voters in post-election Cambodia, it finds that gift-giving practices play a different role than current academic theorizations of popular politics, and Cambodian popular politics in particular, would lead us to expect. Ordinary Cambodians are found to make a distinction between contingent and non-contingent exchanges in electoral mobilization, rejecting the former and embracing the latter. CPP gift giving in its current guise is consequently devoid of popular legitimacy across the political camps. At the same time, the idea of meritorious gift giving lives on as an ideal, especially among CNRP supporters. (Less)

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好礼物、坏礼物和权利：柬埔寨民众的看法和 2013 年大选

在 2013 年的柬埔寨全国大选中，反对党柬埔寨救国党 (CNRP) 的支持率大幅上升，紧随执政已久的柬埔寨人民党 (CPP) 位居第二。虽然 CNRP 以反金钱政治、基于权利的议程开展竞选，但 CPP 依靠送礼做法来保持与选民的联系。本文探讨了流行的供应观念的变化，以评估在当前的新世袭制度下柬埔寨在多大程度上出现了民主的、基于权利的良心。在对选举后柬埔寨的 192 名选民进行定性采访的基础上，它发现送礼实践与流行政治，特别是柬埔寨流行政治的当前学术理论所发挥的作用不同，这会让我们期待。发现普通柬埔寨人在选举动员中​​区分偶然性和非偶然性交流，拒绝前者并接受后者。因此，以目前的形式提供的 CPP 礼物在整个政治阵营中缺乏普遍的合法性。与此同时，立功送礼的理念作为一种理想继续存在，尤其是在救国党的支持者中。（较少的）