Varieties of Clientelism
Comparing Patronage Democracies
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Varieties of Clientelism
Comparing Patronage Democracies
About this book
Clientelism is a prominent feature of many of the world's democracies and electoral authoritarian regimes. Yet the comparative study of this practice, which involves exchanging personal favours for electoral support, remains strikingly underdeveloped. This book makes the case that clientelistic politics take different forms in different countries, and that this variation matters for understanding democracy, elections, and governance.
Involving collaboration by experienced observers of politics in several countries – Mexico, Ghana, Sudan to Turkey, Indonesia, the Philippines, Caribbean and Pacific Island states, and Malaysia – the chapters in this volume unpack the concept of clientelism and show that it is possible to identify different types of patronage democracies. The book proposes a comparative framework that focuses on the networks that politicians use, the type of resources they hand out, their degree of control over the distribution of state resources, and shows that the comparative study of a key informal dimension of politics offers much analytical promise for scholars of democracy and governance.
Varieties of Clientelism is essential reading for scholars and students interested in clientelism, patronage democracies, comparative political economy, as well as party politics. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Democratization.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Citation Information
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 How clientelism varies: comparing patronage democracies
- 2 Analytical perspectives on varieties of clientelism
- 3 How democratization benefits brokers: a comparison of Mexico City and Khartoum
- 4 Clientelism in small states: how smallness influences patron–client networks in the Caribbean and the Pacific
- 5 Clientelism and dominant incumbent parties: party competition in an urban Turkish neighbourhood
- 6 Duelling networks: relational clientelism in electoral-authoritarian Malaysia
- 7 Democratization, party systems, and the endogenous roots of Ghanaian clientelism
- 8 Guns for hire and enduring machines: clientelism beyond parties in Indonesia and the Philippines
- Index