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Book Synopsis Curbing Clientelism in Argentina by : Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro
Download or read book Curbing Clientelism in Argentina written by Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many young democracies, local politics remain a bastion of nondemocratic practices, from corruption to clientelism to abuse of power. Focusing on the practice of clientelism in social policy in Argentina, this book argues that only the combination of a growing middle class and intense political competition leads local politicians to opt out of clientelism.
Book Synopsis Curbing Clientelism in Argentina by : Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro
Download or read book Curbing Clientelism in Argentina written by Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many young democracies, local politics remain a bastion of nondemocratic practices, from corruption to clientelism to abuse of power. In a context where these practices are widespread, will local politicians ever voluntarily abandon them? Focusing on the practice of clientelism in social policy in Argentina, this book argues that only the combination of a growing middle class and intense political competition leads local politicians to opt out of clientelism. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, an original public opinion survey, and cross-municipal data in Argentina, this book illustrates how clientelism works and documents the electoral gains and costs of the practice. In doing so, it points to a possible subnational path towards greater accountability within democracy.
Book Synopsis Mobilizing Poor Voters by : Mariela Szwarcberg
Download or read book Mobilizing Poor Voters written by Mariela Szwarcberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy has provided opportunities for political representation and accountability, but it has also created incentives for creating and maintaining clientelistic networks. Why has clientelism consolidated with the introduction of democracy? Drawing on network analysis, Mobilizing Poor Voters answers this question by describing and explaining the emergence, maintenance, and disappearance of political, partisan, and social networks in Argentina. Combining qualitative and quantitative data gathered during twenty-four months of field research in eight municipalities in Argentina, Mobilizing Poor Voters shows that when party leaders distribute political promotions to party candidates based only on the number of voters they mobilize, party leaders incentivize the use of clientelistic strategies among candidates competing to mobilize voters in poor neighborhoods. The logic of perverse incentives examined in this book explains why candidates who use clientelism succeed in getting elected and re-elected over time, contributing to the consolidation of political machines at the local level.
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Book Synopsis The Microfoundations of Political Clientelism by : Mariela Laura Szwarcberg
Download or read book The Microfoundations of Political Clientelism written by Mariela Laura Szwarcberg and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Patronage at Work by : Virginia Oliveros
Download or read book Patronage at Work written by Virginia Oliveros and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes what patronage employees do in exchange for their jobs and provides a novel explanation of why they do it.
Book Synopsis Politicized Enforcement in Argentina by : Matthew Amengual
Download or read book Politicized Enforcement in Argentina written by Matthew Amengual and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amengual investigates how labor and environmental regulations can be enforced by drawing on a study of politics in Argentina.
Book Synopsis Varieties of Clientelism by : Edward Aspinall
Download or read book Varieties of Clientelism written by Edward Aspinall and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-26 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Clientelism and Democratic Representation in Comparative Perspective by : Saskia Ruth-Lovell
Download or read book Clientelism and Democratic Representation in Comparative Perspective written by Saskia Ruth-Lovell and published by ECPR Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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".
Book Synopsis Political Parties and Electoral Clientelism by : Sergiu Gherghina
Download or read book Political Parties and Electoral Clientelism written by Sergiu Gherghina and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary political parties often use state resources to win elections. In this context, electoral clientelism evolved from the straightforward vote buying to sophisticated exchanges in which the relationship between patrons (parties or candidates) and clients (voters) is sometimes difficult to grasp. We address the question how do the distributive politics and electoral clientelism interact, how these forms of interactions differ across various context, and what implications they bring for the functioning of political systems. The special issue provides theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions to the burgeoning literature about the multi-faceted feature of electoral clientelism. It unfolds the complex relationship between distributive politics and clientelism, and conceptualizes electoral clientelism as a dynamic process that occurs through different sequences. It enriches the methodological tools aimed at investigating electoral clientelism. Finally, the special issue approaches clientelism from several perspectives and brings together substantive empirical evidence about the varieties of clientelism around the world.
Book Synopsis Making Local Democracy by : Mariela Laura Szwarcberg
Download or read book Making Local Democracy written by Mariela Laura Szwarcberg and published by Proquest, UMI Dissertation Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of my thesis is to explain the simultaneous consolidation of clientelism and democracy in developing countries. Democracy has created new spaces for representation and political accountability, but it has also created incentives for maintaining and nurturing clientelistic bonds. Why some political parties choose clientelistic inducements to mobilize voters, and why some clientelistic parties succeed in mobilizing low-income voters while others fail, are the questions I seek to answer in my dissertation. Whereas these questions are motivated largely by puzzles in the consolidation of democracy in Latin America, these are questions of importance outside the region and the study of machine politics. My dissertation argues that the combination of broker access and agency in distributing clientelistic inducements, their capacity to build networks to trade goods and favors for votes, and their strategic choices in deciding how to mobilize voters explains variation in the dependent variable. By combining field and archival research, participant observation, and in-depth interviews with party bosses, brokers, activists, community organizers, and voters across provinces, municipalities, and neighborhoods in Argentina, my thesis shows how informal incentives explain the persistence and consolidation of clientelistic strategies in political districts inhabited by low-income voters. I find that when political parties choose to reward and punish candidates or brokers, terms that I use interchangeably, only based on how many voters they can mobilize, brokers competing for the support of low-income voters are encouraged to distribute clientelistic inducements and monitor voters. I also find that party brokers who employ coercive strategies, such as threatening voters to withdraw benefits if voters fail to turn out, are more effective than those that choose to employ persuasive strategies. By examining and comparing political party organization across and within subunits, I find that when faced with the same incentives, candidate strategic choices are not affected by their partisanship. In addition, through "thick" description, I show how brokers systematically rotate state aid among voters and promise future benefits in exchange for actual support. As a result of these tactics, clientelism influences the behavior of a broader set of voters than those who receive immediate benefits before elections.
Book Synopsis The Creation of Modern Buenos Aires by : Joel Horowitz
Download or read book The Creation of Modern Buenos Aires written by Joel Horowitz and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Creation of Modern Buenos Aires examines the impact of civic associations on the culture and the society of Buenos Aires and their ties to politics in the first decades of the twentieth century. The period saw the emergence of the modern political system with true appeals to the voters, tremendous urban growth, and the solidification of a barrio identity. Historian Joel Horowitz examines four types of organizations: football clubs, bibliotecas populares (popular libraries), sociedades de fomento (development societies that pushed for barrio improvements), and universidades populares (popular universities that provided practical training beyond the primary school level). All four types became important social centers and were connected to the political world. The book focuses on the period from the passage of a voting reform law in 1912, which made male-citizen voting obligatory and fraud more difficult, to the military coup of 1943. The book shows how civic associations helped create the social world of the city, focusing especially on the part they played in the development of the sense of barrio. It demonstrates how civic associations became vital links in the system of politics that emerged, creating spaces for politicians to build connections to different communities.
Book Synopsis The SAGE Handbook of Political Sociology, 2v by : William Outhwaite
Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Political Sociology, 2v written by William Outhwaite and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 1855 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Handbook of Political Sociology offers a comprehensive and contemporary look at this evolving field of study. The focus is on political life itself and the chapters, written by a highly-respected and international team of authors, cover the core themes which need to be understood in order to study political life from a sociological perspective, or simply to understand the political world. The two volumes are structured around five key areas: PART 1: TRADITIONS AND PERSPECTIVES PART 2: CORE CONCEPTS PART 03: POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES AND MOVEMENTS PART 04: TOPICS PART 05: WORLD REGIONS This future-oriented and cross-disciplinary handbook is a landmark text for students and scholars interested in the social investigation of politics.
Book Synopsis Clientelism, Capitalism, and Democracy by : Didi Kuo
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: Political parties in the United States and Britain used clientelism and patronage to govern throughout the nineteenth century. By the twentieth century, however, parties in both countries shifted to programmatic competition. This book argues that capitalists were critical to this shift. Businesses developed new forms of corporate management and capitalist organization, and found clientelism inimical to economic development. Drawing on extensive archival research in the United States and Britain, this book shows how national business organizations pushed parties to adopt programmatic reforms, including administrative capacities and policy-centered campaigns. Parties then shifted from reliance on clientelism as a governing strategy in elections, policy distribution, and bureaucracy. They built modern party organizations and techniques of interest mediation and accommodation. This book provides a novel theory of capitalist interests against clientelism, and argues for a more rigorous understanding of the relationship between capitalism and political development.
Book Synopsis The Puzzle of Clientelism by : Miriam A. Golden
Download or read book The Puzzle of Clientelism written by Miriam A. Golden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Political Networks by : Jennifer Nicoll Victor
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Political Networks written by Jennifer Nicoll Victor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-23 with total page 1011 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Networks are omnipresent in our natural and social world, and they are at the heart of politics. Relationships of many types drive political institutions, processes, and decision-making. Therefore, it is imperative for the study of politics to include network approaches. Already, these approaches have advanced our understanding of critical questions, such as: Why do people vote? How can people build problem-solving coalitions? How can governments and organizations foster innovations? How can countries build ties that promote peace? What are the most fruitful strategies for disrupting arms or terrorist networks? This volume is designed as a foundational statement and resource. The contributions offer instruction on network theory and methods at both beginner and advanced levels, as well as an assessment of the state-of-the-discipline on a variety of applied network topics in politics. Through this dynamic collection of essays, The Oxford Handbook of Political Networks elucidates how the field is transforming and what that means for the future of political science.
Book Synopsis Choosing Clientelism by : Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro
Download or read book Choosing Clientelism written by Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do some local governments condition the delivery of goods and services to citizens on individual political behavior, while others do not? In this paper, I outline a theory of variation in clientelism that focuses on differences in the incentives politicians face to use clientelism depending on voter poverty and levels of political competition. I then test this theory using an original dataset on municipal-level clientelism in Argentina. The results of statistical analysis suggest that the relationship between clientelism and political competition is not a straightforward one. I find substantial support for the hypothesis that the relationship between political opposition and clientelism is contingent on levels of voter poverty. Where poverty is limited, increasing levels of opposition are associated with a decreased likelihood of clientelism. In contrast, where poverty is widespread, high levels of political opposition are associated with a high probability of clientelism. These results suggest that the electoral costs of clientelism, not only its benefits, shape the choices and behavior of reelection-seeking politicians.
