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Caucasus Journal of Social Sciences, 2023 This paper aims to examine clientelism in Georgian politics. It is one of the most severe cases of corruption since it substantially assists in establishing an anti-democratic regime in the state. Clientelism has been seen as a corollary of democracy, especially in the early phases of democratization.
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A System Dynamics Approach to Analysing the Effect of Clientelism on Public Organizations Performance in Italy [PDF]
This paper tries to analyse the effects of political clientelism on the performance of public utilities and organizations in Italy. Shortly, clientelism consists in a series of reciprocal convenience-based relationships between politicians and ...
Federico COSENZ
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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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Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article asks if clientelism is a form of citizenship in an agrarian society under military domination. It focuses on the efforts made by villagers in central Burma to recover land previously grabbed by force by the military state. A promise of land return during the political transition of the 2010s enabled dispossessed farmers to define ...
Stéphen Huard, Mya Dar Li Thant
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Inequality and Political Clientelism: Evidence from South India [PDF]
Political parties can be vehicles for economic and social development in poor countries. They can also serve as rent seeking instruments. Uncovering how parties function is therefore key to establishing the preconditions for good governance.
Thomas Markussen
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines peasant and Indigenous movements in Mexico since Morena's rise to power in 2018 through the lens of collective empowerment theory, a theory of political‐cultural formation. Beyond offering an empirical assessment, the theory is refined and formalized through an analysis of these movements and their relationship to ...
Gerardo Otero
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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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Social Sciences and Humanities OpenWhy does sociocultural clientelism remain durable under digitalisation and institutional reform? The varieties-of-clientelism literature distinguishes relational from spot-market exchange.
Andri Rusta, Dede Sri Kartini
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La Parapolítica: la infiltración paramilitar en la clase política colombiana
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2007 This article analyses the informal practices that derive from the implication of actors armed in the development and organization of the political parties in Colombia.
Miriam Álvaro
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Does Islamic Religiosity Constrain Liberal Democratic Attitudes?
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The relationship between Islam and democracy remains contested. Although some scholars argue that the two are inherently incompatible, others maintain that they can coexist harmoniously. Although the existing literature includes a growing number of empirical studies testing these competing claims, many are constrained by limitations in data ...
Zeki Sarigil
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