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Book review: Group-based clientelism in Japan: the key to LDP political dominance

open access: yesRevista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals
Review of the book: Catalinac, Amy. Dominance through Division: Group-Based Clientelism in Japan. Cambridge University Press, 2023. 302 págs.
Lluc Vidal
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Irish clientelism: a reappraisal

open access: yes, 2014
Studies of Irish politics have generally used a clientelist framework: voters in rural areas seem to obtain state benefits through a politician's interventions and, in return, become the politician's "clients". This article reports anthropological research on urban brokerage and clientelism carried out in Dublin from 1978 to 1981 which suggests that a ...
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The Political Economy of Clientelism*

The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2013
AbstractIn this paper, we argue that the political‐commitment problem provides an explanation for why much income redistribution takes an inefficient form, particularly employment in the public sector. A job is a credible way of redistributing when it provides rents (such as in situations with moral hazard), and employment is optimal ex post. Moreover,
Robinson, James A., Verdier, Thierry
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Dividend Clienteles, the Tax‐Clientele Hypothesis, and Utilities

Financial Review, 1990
AbstractStudies of ex‐dividend day behavior have detected dividend‐clientele effects. The ratio of the ex‐day price drop to the dividend is typically less than unity and correlated with dividend yield. The tax‐clientele hypothesis attributes these effects to personal taxation.
David L. Skinner, John E. Gilster
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Clientelism and Democracy

Comparative Sociology, 2020
Abstract Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are rapidly increasing across the world. While national governments are usually seen as having the power, authority, and ability to make significant reductions in their CO2 outputs, cross-national research rarely focuses on the institutional structures of states that moderate their CO2 emissions.
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Electoral Clientelism or Relational Clientelism? Healthcare and Sterilization in Brazil

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
In many countries, clientelist parties (or political machines) distribute selective benefits in contingent exchange for political support. Studies of clientelism should distinguish between substantively different patterns of machine politics. A fundamental but often overlooked distinction lies between “electoral clientelism” and what I term “relational
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Religious Clientelism A theory

2021
In today’s political science scholarship, the concept of clientelism often evokes an image of voters selling their votes to the highest bidder, where a substantial focus lies on the material nature of the exchange between patron and client. What remains scant is a theory of clientelism where non-material incentives are included as part and parcel of ...
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Clientelism and Poverty

2013
INTRODUCTION: POVERTY OF NATIONS AND OF VOTERS Part II of this book constructs a model of clientelism that pivots around the behavior of types of individuals – party leaders, brokers, and voters. Part III examines macro-dynamics of clientelism: why it persists and what forces may undermine it, with an emphasis on historical developments at the ...
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