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Collective Clientelism
Author : John Ravenhill
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 41,43 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231515702
Collective Clientelism
Author : Didi Kuo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108426085
In the United States and Britain, capitalists organized in opposition to clientelism and demanded programmatic parties and institutional reforms.
Author : Philip Keefer
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 37,49 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Democracy
ISBN :
"Keefer and Vlaicu demonstrate that sharply different policy choices across democracies can be explained as a consequence of differences in the ability of political competitors to make credible pre-electoral commitments to voters. Politicians can overcome their credibility deficit in two ways. First, they can build reputations. This requires that they fulfill preconditions that in practice are costly--informing voters of their promises, tracking those promises, and ensuring that voters turn out on election day. Alternatively, they can rely on intermediaries--patrons--who are already able to make credible commitments to their clients. Endogenizing credibility in this way, the authors find that targeted transfers and corruption are higher and public good provision lower than in democracies in which political competitors can make credible pre-electoral promises. They also argue that in the absence of political credibility, political reliance on patrons enhances welfare in the short run, in contrast to the traditional view that clientelism in politics is a source of significant policy distortion. However, in the long run reliance on patrons may undermine the emergence of credible political parties. The model helps to explain several puzzles. For example, public investment and corruption are higher in young democracies than old; and democratizing reforms succeeded remarkably in Victorian England, in contrast to the more difficult experiences of many democratizing countries, such as the Dominican Republic. This paper--a product of the Growth and Investment Team, Development Research Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to investigate the political economy of development"--World Bank web site.
Author : Herbert Kitschelt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 12,64 MB
Release : 2007-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521865050
A study of patronage politics and the persistence of clientelism across a range of countries.
Author : Alberto Diaz-Cayeros
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107140285
The Political Logic of Poverty Relief places electoral politics and institutional design at the core of poverty alleviation. The authors develop a theory with applications to Mexico about how elections shape social programs aimed at aiding the poor. They also assess whether voters reward politicians for targeted poverty alleviation programs.
Author : Aris Trantidis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 15,76 MB
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317326601
With its deep economic crisis and dramatic political developments Greece has puzzled Europe and the world. What explains its long-standing problems and its incapacity to reform its economy? Using an analytic narrative and a comparative approach, the book studies the pattern of economic reforms in Greece between 1985 and 2015. It finds that clientelism - the allocation of selective benefits by political actors (patrons) to their supporters (clients) - created a strong policy bias that prevented the country from implementing deep-cutting reforms. The book shows that the clientelist system differs from the general image of interest-group politics and that the typical view of clientelism, as individual exchange between patrons and clients, has not fully captured the wide range and implications of this phenomenon. From this, the author develops a theory on clientelism and policy-making, addressing key questions on the politics of economic reform, government autonomy and party politics. The book is an essential addition to the literatures on clientelism, public choice theory, and comparative political economy. It will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Union politics, economic policy and party politics.
Author : T. Hilgers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,19 MB
Release : 2012-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137275995
This book improves understandings of how and why clientelism endures in Latin America and why state policy is often ineffective. Political scientists and sociologists, the contributors employ ethnography, targeted interviews, case studies, within-case and regional comparison, thick descriptions, and process tracing.
Author : Saskia Ruth-Lovell
Publisher : ECPR Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 10,64 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1785523015
Since the Third Wave of democratization research on clientelism has experienced a revival. The puzzling persistence of clientelism in new and old democracies inspired researchers to investigate the micro-foundations and causes of this phenomenon. Though the decline of clientelistic practices - such as vote buying and patronage - in democratic contexts has often been predicted, they have proven to be highly adaptive strategies of electoral mobilization and party building. This volume seeks to contribute to this new line of research and develops a theoretical framework to study the consequences of clientelism for democratic governance. Under governance we understand "all processes of governing, whether undertaken by a government, market, or network, whether over a family, tribe, formal or informal organization, or territory, and whether through laws, norms, power or language".
Author : Miriam A. Golden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 46,10 MB
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1009323237
This Element presents newly-collected cross-national data on reelection rates of lower house national legislators from almost 100 democracies around the world. Reelection rates are low/high in countries where clientelism and vote buying are high/low. Drawing on theory developed to study lobbying, the authors explain why politicians continue clientelist activities although they do not secure reelection. The Element also provides a thorough review of the last decade of literature on clientelism, which the authors define as discretionary resource distribution by political actors. The combination of novel empirical data and theoretically-grounded analysis provides a radically new perspective on clientelism. Finally, the Element suggests that clientelism evolves with economic development, assuming new forms in highly developed democracies but never entirely disappearing.
Author : María Cruz Berrocal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 22,60 MB
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1135098018
The origin and early development of social stratification is essentially an archaeological problem. The impressive advance of archaeological research has revealed that, first and foremost, the pre-eminence of stratified or class society in today’s world is the result of a long social struggle. This volume advances the archaeological study of social organisation in Prehistory, and more specifically the rise of social complexity in European Prehistory. Within the wider context of world Prehistory, in the last 30 years the subject of early social stratification and state formation has been a key subject on interest in Iberian Prehistory. This book illustrates the differing forms of resistances, the interplay between change and continuity, the multiple paths to and from social complexity, and the ‘failures’ of states to form in Prehistory. It also engages with broader questions, such as: when did social stratification appear in western European Prehistory? What factors contributed to its emergence and consolidation? What are the relationships between the notions of social complexity, social inequality, social stratification and statehood? And what are the archaeological indicators for the empirical analysis of these issues? Focusing on Iberia, but with a permanent connection to the wider geographical framework, this book presents, for the first time, a chronologically comprehensive, up-to-date approach to the issue of state formation in prehistoric Europe.