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The Political Economy of Clientelism: A Comparative Study of Indonesia’s Patronage Democracy [PDF]

Comparative Political Studies, 2018
What kind of economic development curtails clientelistic politics? Most of the literature addressing this relationship focuses narrowly on vote buying, resulting in theories that emphasize the importance of declining poverty rates and a growing middle ...
Ward Berenschot
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Varieties of clientelism across political parties: new measures of patron–client relationships [PDF]

European Political Science Review, 2023
Recent research on clientelism has focused on the varieties of clientelism. They suggest that clientelistic exchanges differ in terms of the expected length of iterations, whereby politicians deliver benefits to voters in exchange for political support.
Masaaki Higashijima, Hidekuni Washida
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Identifying clientelism in orphanages: a conceptual model [PDF]

Children's Geographies
Much has been written on the factors that contribute to a child’s admission into institutional care, including poverty, lack of access to education, death of a parent, active recruitment, and the sheer presence of orphanages.
Rebecca Nhep
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Why Elections Prompt More Corruption, Clientelism, and Forbearance? A Study of Attitudes in Albania, Kosovo, and North Macedonia [PDF]

Comparative Southeast European Studies
Corruption is often defined as the abuse of public functions for private gain, but research has expanded this view to include clientelism and forbearance, particularly in neo-patrimonial contexts.
Imami Drini, Polese Abel
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Clientelism's Red Herrings: Dead Ends and New Directions in the Study of Nonprogrammatic Politics

Annual Review of Political Science, 2020
Research on clientelism often starts from a shared puzzle: How can clientelism be a viable electoral strategy if voters can renege on their commitments to politicians?
Allen Hicken
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Undermining Clientelism with Collective Confidence: Unbundling the Individual and Spillover Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers

Latin American Research Review
A growing body of evidence suggests that conditional cash transfers (CCTs) can shift voters’ electoral choices. Yet there remains a mismatch between reliance on aggregated municipal data and individual-level theories focused on retrospective rewards or ...
Jonathan Phillips
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Votes, Clientelism, and Conditional Cash Transfer Programs

Politikon, 2014
Studies in the field of clientelism show that this specific social phenomenon can influence the voting patterns and local behavior in developing countries, maintaining in power a political elite that detains the vast majority of the local economic ...
Fábio Mariano Espíndola da Silva
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Political Parties, Clientelism, and Bureaucratic Reform

Comparative Political Studies, 2015
Cesi Cruz, Philip Keefer
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Clientelism Institution and Downfall of the Pahlavi II Government (Within the Framework of the New Institutionalism Theory) [PDF]

دولت‌پژوهی, 2022
One of the essential problems in institutional policies in developing countries is the existence of abstractive institutions such as incompetent rents, the culture of kinship and the lack of transparency of administrative processes.
Habib ollah Fazeli, Hadi Rajabi
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Clientelismo, corruzione e criminalità organizzata. Comparare per distinguere

SocietàMutamentoPolitica: Rivista Italiana di Sociologia, 2021
This article focuses on the similarities and the differences of three degenerations of the political system. The author proposes the cultural political approach to define and to sign the boundaries between clientelism and corruption, clientelism and ...
Mario Caciagli
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