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American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Water is essential for human life, yet governments frequently leave vulnerable citizens to rely on informal channels for access. What can motivate governments to provide public services such as water to citizens trapped in informality?
Nikhar Gaikwad, Anjali Thomas
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Comparative Southeast European StudiesCorruption 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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The Price of Poverty: Inequality and the Strategic Use of Clientelism in Divided Democracies
EconomiesThis article investigates the political cost of poverty in democracies marked by deep social divisions. We develop a probabilistic voting model that incorporates clientelism as a strategic tool employed by elite political parties to secure electoral ...
Andrés Cendales +2 more
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Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2017 The studying of the process of political and social structures reformation in Russia in XIX century is impossible without the attention of a researcher to the reformers’ personalities, including the “second plan” reformers, such as bureaucrats often ...
K. S. Kunavin
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Collective Action, Clientelism and Connectivity [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 Backed by studies finding only limited propensity for free-riding when communities have an interest in self-provision, the last few decades have seen a surge of interest in community-based development. A major caveat to the “second wave” of collective action studies, however, is that collective action often breaks down under hierarchical social ...
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The impacts of high refractive errors on self‐reported visual function and visual concern
Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose To examine the association between refractive errors and self‐reported visual function and visual concern, considering self‐perceived present eyesight, concerns about vision, accomplishing less and limitations in daily activities in an eye‐healthy cohort.
Jens Riis Møller +9 more
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract After the Second World War, family allowances became a cornerstone of social spending in western Europe. Whilst religion is often highlighted as a driver of this policy, the role of political Catholicism remains contested, particularly in southern Europe.
Guillem Verd‐Llabrés
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Latin American Research ReviewA 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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Colombia Internacional, 2017 This article studies the phenomenon of clientelism as an informal institution and poses the question of its persistence in relation to subnational political regimes. A case study was done in the province of Santiago del Estero in Argentina, taking as its
Victoria Ortiz de Rozas
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Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT SDG 16 emphasizes the need for accountable institutions, often based on the assumption that public officials are accountable to politicians, who in turn are accountable to citizens. However, in many developing countries, neopatrimonial governance can weaken this accountability chain, as politicians themselves may act as “unprincipled ...
Edidiong Bassey, Emer Mulligan
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