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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While electoral support in deeply divided societies is expected to follow segmental lines, parties often attract substantial backing from outside their core constituencies. This article examines why voters in Belgium's Brussels‐Capital Region—a consociational system designed to enable the peaceful cohabitation of the French and Dutch language ...
Benjamin Blanckaert +2 more
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Clientelism in Cambodian residential care institutions
More than half of Cambodia’s residential care institutions (RCIs) for children are operating in contravention of law and policy, consequently putting children at risk.
Nhep, Rebecca
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European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2009 This article examines the recent behaviour in Argentina of two national protest groups of socalled ‘piqueteros’ or picketers (impoverished unemployed individuals who used the blockage of strategic roads and bridges to force government concessions) that ...
Edward C. Epstein
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Between and Beyond: Negotiating Belonging Within Queer Borderlands
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Belonging is an affective, social and biopolitical phenomenon which is relationally negotiated and which produces material and symbolic ‘borders’. Subsequently, the politics of belonging refers to the construction, maintenance and policing of the borders of belonging.
Meg Poff
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, 2021 Unlike much of the growing literature on political clientelism, this short paper contains mainly the author's general reflections on the broad issues of governance (or mis-governance including corruption), democracy, and state capacity that clientelism ...
Bardhan, Pranab K.
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Why Is Participation Low in Referendums? Lessons from Latin America
Latin American Research ReviewWhether referendums, initiatives, and other mechanisms of direct democracy enhance representative systems is a matter of debate. Skeptics note—among other criticisms—that turnout tends to be low in referendums, often lower than in candidate elections in ...
Eli Gavin Rau +2 more
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Epistocracy and the Commitment Problem
Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The epistocracy debate has turned largely on the character of the electorate—what voters know, whether competence filters can be designed well, and what filtered selection produces. Another strand has focused on the legitimacy of epistocratic justifications. I ask instead about the equilibrium effects of the institution.
Simon Goldstein
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Leaving no one behind: Party clientelism in social welfare in Serbia [PDF]
Anali Pravnog Fakulteta u BeograduThis article analyzes the functioning of party patronage and clientelism in the centers for social work. Building on previous research, based on qualitative research conducted in 2023 in Serbia, we examine parasitic relations of informal and formal ...
Vuković Danilo, Stefanović Marija
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, 2017 This study argues that economic vulnerability causes citizens to participate in clientelism, a phenomenon with various pernicious consequences. We employ a randomized control trial that reduced household vulnerability through a development intervention: constructing residential water cisterns in drought-prone areas of Brazil.
Gustavo Bobonis +3 more
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Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The moral decision‐making and behavior of politicians is influenced by the distinctive and characteristic attributes of political office. This literature review analyzes 80 articles from public administration, political science and related disciplines to systematically map these attributes and their underlying mechanisms. This study identifies
Manon Koopman +2 more
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