Clientelism And Democratic Representation In Comparative Perspective
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Clientelism, Interests, and Democratic Representation
Author: Simona Piattoni
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2001-09-10
This book charts the evolution of clientelist practices in several western European countries. Through the historical and comparative analysis of countries as diverse as Sweden and Greece, England and Spain, France and Italy, Iceland and the Netherlands, the authors study both the "supply-side" and the "demand-side" of clientelism. This approach contends that clientelism is a particular mix of particularism and universalism, in which interests are aggregated at the level of the individual and his family "particularism," but in which all interests can potentially find expression and accommodation in "universalism."
Clientelism and Democratic Representation in Comparative Perspective
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".
Patrons, Clients and Policies
Author: Herbert Kitschelt
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2007-03-29
A study of patronage politics and the persistence of clientelism across a range of countries.