Patronage or policy? The politics of property rights formalization in Kenya
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105580
Abstract: Abstract Scholarship on African and other developing societies often argues that governments allocate private goods as political patronage, but recent work has called this assumption into question. In this study, I argue that clientelism is… read more here.
Keywords: allocation; clientelism; patronage; policy ... See more keywords
Paula Muñoz, Buying Audiences: Clientelism and Electoral Campaigns when Parties Are Weak. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Figures, tables, appendixes, bibliography, index, 314 pp.; hardcover $105, ebook $84.
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DOI: 10.1017/lap.2019.52
Abstract: This book is a gem. Since Stokes’s 2005 seminal article, a significant number of contributions have vastly improved our knowledge about how and when clientelism works. As a result, it is hard to find new… read more here.
Keywords: electoral clientelism; party; book; clientelism works ... See more keywords
Analytical perspectives on varieties of clientelism
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DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2019.1641798
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article explains the varieties of clientelistic vote exchange in contemporary electoral democracies. It distinguishes two commonly recognized modes of exchange according to their capacity to overcome the problem of opportunism – relational clientelism… read more here.
Keywords: perspectives varieties; analytical perspectives; party; varieties clientelism ... See more keywords
Democratization, party systems, and the endogenous roots of Ghanaian clientelism
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DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2019.1666265
Abstract: ABSTRACT Ghana provides an interesting case of a democratic developing country in which clientelism is pervasive yet vote buying is rare. Drawing on fieldwork and recent scholarship, and situated within the comparative frame that animates… read more here.
Keywords: democratization party; party; party systems; systems endogenous ... See more keywords
Clientelism at work? A case study of Kenyan Standard Gauge Railway project
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DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2019.1678026
Abstract: ABSTRACT Through investigating Kenya’s newly launched Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) project, this article explores the impact of clientelism on mega-infrastructure projects. This research traces the initiation and implementation of this Chinese-financed and -constructed railway in… read more here.
Keywords: project; railway; standard gauge; gauge railway ... See more keywords
Brokering Bureaucrats: How Bureaucrats and Civil Society Facilitate Clientelism Where Parties are Weak
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DOI: 10.1177/00104140221115171
Abstract: Clientelism, the exchange of selective rewards for votes, is fraught with commitment problems and questions remain regarding how it occurs in settings lacking strong parties. In such settings, we argue, bureaucrats can act as brokers… read more here.
Keywords: civil society; bureaucrats bureaucrats; bureaucrats civil; clientelism ... See more keywords
Clientelism, Law and Politics. Considerations in the Light of the Argentine Case
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DOI: 10.1515/ldr-2017-0023
Abstract: Abstract The purpose of this article is, on the one hand, to explain what clientelism is through a description of its characteristics in its current Argentinean form. On the other hand, it will evaluate clientelism… read more here.
Keywords: case; clientelism law; law politics; politics considerations ... See more keywords