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Clientelism in Public Employment in Turkey

open access: yesJournal of Economy Culture and Society
This study aims to examine political clientelism, which can be defined as the distribution of public resources to the advocates through political powers, with its recent dimension in Turkey.
Serap Suğur, Mesut Özel
doaj   +1 more source

Practising Politics in a Disorderly Democracy

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 72, Issue 1, Page 108-122, March 2026.
Taking as its starting point Ron May's scholarship on Papua New Guinea as a “disorderly democracy,” this article examines how politics is practised in the PNG Parliament. Using a case study of the events of late 2020, when a vote of no confidence against the Marape government was mooted but eventually failed to materialise, it adopts a practice theory ...
Kerryn Baker
wiley   +1 more source

“Everything Is Just Done Away With Now”: Contentious Practices of Scalar Brokerage Motivated by Narratives of Welfare Nostalgia in Postcolonial Rotterdam

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 108-119, March 2026.
ABSTRACT According to anthropological theories of brokerage, brokers build bridges, close gaps, make connections, and construct shared norms. In this article, I argue that such structural‐functionalist approaches to brokerage do not prove adequate in addressing unsettled and unsettling scale‐making practices of refugee‐led support initiatives in ...
Lieke van der Veer
wiley   +1 more source

Four Dimensions of Presidential Leadership: Rethinking Nelson Mandela's Presidency

open access: yesPresidential Studies Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article applies a four‐dimensional analytical framework to re‐evaluate Nelson Mandela's presidency (1994–1999). The framework distinguishes tensions and synergies across four key domains of leadership: executive and symbolic, party and state, international and domestic, and formal versus informal.
Anthony Butler
wiley   +1 more source

Politicization of Public Administration: A Case Study of Capital City Police Officers (CCPOs) of Lahore

open access: yesBTTN Journal, 2023
The study aims to identify the reason behind the abrupt transfer of CCPOs of Lahore from 2018 to 2022. It examines the client-patron relation between these officers and political elites by reviewing literature, secondary data and through semi-structured
Talha Khalid, Waleed Bin Mujahid
doaj  

Clientelism in Decentralized States

open access: yes, 2019
León acknowledges the financial support of Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (through the Severo Ochoa Program for Centers of Excellence in R&D (SEV-2011-0075) and grant ECO2014-55555-P).
León-Ciliotta, Gianmarco   +1 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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