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Political Clientelism in Presidential Elections: Voting Behaviour and Social Assistance
JSP: Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu PolitikClientelism is a dangerous practice for democratic countries as it exploits poverty for elections. Despite the risks associated with clientelism, political actors in various countries continue to engage in it in election campaigns to win political ...
Moch. Noor +2 more
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State Integration and Violence at the Margins: The Logic of Police Raids in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates police raids in Rio de Janeiro's favelas through a property rights framework, exploring their organisational structure, motivations and implications. Using data from police reports, academic studies, NGOs and news sources, it examines why and how the state intervenes in these contested spaces.
Joseph Bouchard
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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper offers a novel, productive approach to political ethics in the European Parliament (EP), assuming some of its members (MEPs) are elected undemocratically in member states severely affected by democratic backsliding. It explores the normative foundations of how other MEPs should deal with undemocratically elected MEPs here and now ...
Attila Mráz
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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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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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Overcoming the constraints of competitive clientelism? Explaining the success of Ghana's poorest region in reducing maternal mortality [PDF]
, 2023 Abdul‐Gafaru Abdulai
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What role has the state played in the establishment of the current food regime in a post‐socialist setting? Focusing on Croatia, I undertake a critical discourse analysis of the national agricultural strategies enacted during the neoliberal transition between 1991 and 2013.
Alexander Gavranich
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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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Unveiling the Perils – Addressing Clientelism and Corruption in Post-Communist Albania through Enlightened Civic Engagement and Electoral Accountability [PDF]
, 2023 Adela Danaj, Ervis ILJAZAJ
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Practicing Power‐Sharing: How Political Adversaries (Fail to) Rule Jointly
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Why does power‐sharing lead to peace and effective governance in some cases but not others? Whereas the current literature on this question predominantly focuses on institutional design, this article argues that more attention should be given to the everyday activities, routines and processes through which power‐sharing is operated.
Alexandre Wadih Raffoul
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