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Clientelism and Economic Policy

Author : Aris Trantidis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317326601
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Clientelism and Economic Policy written by Aris Trantidis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Clientelism and Economic Policy

Author : Aris Trantidis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138488236
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (882 download)

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Download or read book Clientelism and Economic Policy written by Aris Trantidis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Clientelism, Capitalism, and Democracy

Author : Didi Kuo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108426085
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Clientelism, Capitalism, and Democracy written by Didi Kuo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States and Britain, capitalists organized in opposition to clientelism and demanded programmatic parties and institutional reforms.

Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy

Author : Diego Abente Brun
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421412292
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Book Synopsis Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy by : Diego Abente Brun

Download or read book Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy written by Diego Abente Brun and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abente Brun and Diamond invited some of the best social scientists in the field to systematically explore how political clientelism works and evolves in the context of modern developing democracies, with particular reference to social policies aimed at reducing poverty. Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy is balanced between a section devoted to understanding clientelism's infamous effects and history in Latin America and a section that draws out implications for other regions, specifically Africa, Southeast Asia, and Eastern and Central Europe.

Democracy, Credibility, and Clientelism

Author : Philip Keefer
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy, Credibility, and Clientelism written by Philip Keefer and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Patrons, Clients and Policies

Author : Herbert Kitschelt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521865050
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Patrons, Clients and Policies written by Herbert Kitschelt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of patronage politics and the persistence of clientelism across a range of countries.

Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy

Author : Diego Abente Brun
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421412640
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy written by Diego Abente Brun and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-renowned scholars explore how political clientelism works and evolves in the context of modern developing democracies. What happens when vote buying becomes a means of social policy? Although one could cynically ask this question just as easily about the United States’s mature democracy, Diego Abente Brun and Larry Diamond ask this question about democracies in the developing world through an assessment of political clientelism, or what is commonly known as patronage. Studies of political clientelism, whether deployed through traditional vote-buying techniques or through the politicized use of social spending, were a priority in the 1970s, when democratization efforts around the world flourished. With the rise of the Washington Consensus and neoliberal economic policies during the late-1980s, clientelism studies were moved to the back of the scholarly agenda. Abente Brun and Diamond invited some of the best social scientists in the field to systematically explore how political clientelism works and evolves in the context of modern developing democracies, with particular reference to social policies aimed at reducing poverty. Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy is balanced between a section devoted to understanding clientelism’s infamous effects and history in Latin America and a section that draws out implications for other regions, specifically Africa, Southeast Asia, and Eastern and Central Europe. These rich and instructive case studies glean larger comparative lessons that can help scholars understand how countries regulate the natural sociological reflex toward clientelistic ties in their quest to build that most elusive of all political structures—a fair, efficient, and accountable state based on impersonal criteria and the rule of law. In an era when democracy is increasingly snagged on the age-old practice of patronage, students and scholars of political science, comparative politics, democratization, and international development and economics will be interested in this assessment, which calls for the study of better, more efficient, and just governance.

Clientelism in Everyday Latin American Politics

Author : T. Hilgers
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137275995
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Clientelism in Everyday Latin American Politics written by T. Hilgers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism

Author : Susan C. Stokes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107042208
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism written by Susan C. Stokes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism studies distributive politics: how parties and governments use material resources to win elections. The authors develop a theory that explains why loyal supporters, rather than swing voters, tend to benefit from pork-barrel politics; why poverty encourages clientelism and vote buying; and why redistribution and voter participation do not justify non-programmatic distribution.

Clientelism and Patronage in the Middle East and North Africa

Author : Laura Ruiz de Elvira
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135116922X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Clientelism and Patronage in the Middle East and North Africa written by Laura Ruiz de Elvira and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One common demand in the 2011 uprisings in the MENA region was the call for ‘freedom, dignity, and social justice.’ Citizens rallied against corruption and clientelism, which for many protesters were deeply linked to political tyranny. This book takes the phenomenon of the 2011 uprisings as a point of departure for reassessing clientelism and patronage across the entire MENA region. Using case studies covering Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and the Gulf monarchies, it looks at how the relationships within and between clientelist and patronage networks changed before 2011. The book assesses how these changes contributed to the destabilization of the established political and social order, and how they affected less visible political processes. It then turns to look at how the political transformations since 2011 have in turn reconfigured these networks in terms of strategies and dynamics, and concomitantly, what implications this has had for the inclusion or exclusion of new actors. Are specific networks expanding or shrinking in the post-2011 contexts? Do these networks reproduce established forms of patron-client relations or do they translate into new modes and mechanisms? As the first book to systematically discuss clientelism, patronage and corruption against the background of the 2011 uprisings, it will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Middle Eastern Studies. The book also addresses major debates in comparative politics and political sociology by offering ‘networks of dependency’ as an interdisciplinary conceptual approach that can ‘travel’ across place and time.

Business and the State in Developing Countries

Author : Sylvia Maxfield
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501731971
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Business and the State in Developing Countries written by Sylvia Maxfield and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the debate about development in the past decade pitted proponents of unfettered markets against advocates of developmental states. Yet, in many developing countries what best explains variations in economic performance is not markets or states but rather the character of relations between business and government. The studies in Business and the State in Developing Countries identify a range of close, collaborative relations between bureaucrats and capitalists that enhance elements of economic performance and defy conventional expectations that such relations lead ineluctably to rent-seeking, corruption, and collusion. All based on extensive field research, the essays contrast collaborative and collusive relations in a wide range of developing countries, mostly in Latin America and Asia, and isolate the conditions under which collaboration is most likely to emerge and survive. The contributors highlight the crucial roles played by capable bureaucracies and strong business associations.

Democracy by Default

Author : Carlene J. Edie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Democracy by Default written by Carlene J. Edie and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Politics of African Industrial Policy

Author : Lindsay Whitfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316300986
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of African Industrial Policy written by Lindsay Whitfield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book engages in the debate on growth versus economic transformation and the importance of industrial policy, presenting a comprehensive framework for explaining the politics of industrial policy. Using comparative research to theorize about the politics of industrial policy in countries in the early stages of capitalist transformation that also experience the pressures of elections due to democratization, this book provides four in-depth African country studies that illustrate the challenges to economic transformation and the politics of implementing industrial policies.

Economies After Colonialism

Author : Lindsay Whitfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 110842614X
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Economies After Colonialism written by Lindsay Whitfield and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping Ghana's struggle to transform its economy after independence, this original interpretation highlights the economic difficulties associated with the political legacies of colonialism.

Democracy, Clientelism, and Civil Society

Author : Luis Roniger
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781555873400
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (734 download)

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Download or read book Democracy, Clientelism, and Civil Society written by Luis Roniger and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Clientelism, Interests, and Democratic Representation

Author : Simona Piattoni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521804776
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Clientelism, Interests, and Democratic Representation written by Simona Piattoni and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

Patronage, Power and Poverty in Southern Italy

Author : Judith Chubb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521236379
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Patronage, Power and Poverty in Southern Italy written by Judith Chubb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the Italy of the 1980s, which represents an unparalleled example of dualistic development - deeply divided between North and South.