Political Parties And Electoral Clientelism

Author : Sergiu Gherghina,Miroslav Nemčok
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031372957

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Political Parties and Electoral Clientelism by Sergiu Gherghina,Miroslav Nemčok Pdf

Contemporary political parties often use state resources to win elections. In this context, electoral clientelism evolved from the straightforward vote buying to sophisticated exchanges in which the relationship between patrons (parties or candidates) and clients (voters) is sometimes difficult to grasp. We address the question how do the distributive politics and electoral clientelism interact, how these forms of interactions differ across various context, and what implications they bring for the functioning of political systems. The special issue provides theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions to the burgeoning literature about the multi-faceted feature of electoral clientelism. It unfolds the complex relationship between distributive politics and clientelism, and conceptualizes electoral clientelism as a dynamic process that occurs through different sequences. It enriches the methodological tools aimed at investigating electoral clientelism. Finally, the special issue approaches clientelism from several perspectives and brings together substantive empirical evidence about the varieties of clientelism around the world.

Author : Paula Muñoz,Paula Muñoz Chirinos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108422598

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Buying Audiences by Paula Muñoz,Paula Muñoz Chirinos Pdf

Develops a new theory of how politicians campaign and deploy electoral clientelism in weak party systems.

Author : Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt,René Lemarchand
Publisher : Sage Publications (CA)
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015046353887

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Political Clientelism, Patronage, and Development by Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt,René Lemarchand Pdf

Author : Edward Aspinall,Ward Berenschot
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501732997

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Democracy for Sale by Edward Aspinall,Ward Berenschot Pdf

Democracy for Sale is an on-the-ground account of Indonesian democracy, analyzing its election campaigns and behind-the-scenes machinations. Edward Aspinall and Ward Berenschot assess the informal networks and political strategies that shape access to power and privilege in the messy political environment of contemporary Indonesia. In post-Suharto Indonesian politics the exchange of patronage for political support is commonplace. Clientelism, argue the authors, saturates the political system, and in Democracy for Sale they reveal the everyday practices of vote buying, influence peddling, manipulating government programs, and skimming money from government projects. In doing so, Aspinall and Berenschot advance three major arguments. The first argument points toward the role of religion, kinship, and other identities in Indonesian clientelism. The second explains how and why Indonesia's distinctive system of free-wheeling clientelism came into being. And the third argument addresses variation in the patterns and intensity of clientelism. Through these arguments and with comparative leverage from political practices in India and Argentina, Democracy for Sale provides compelling evidence of the importance of informal networks and relationships rather than formal parties and institutions in contemporary Indonesia.

Author : Didi Kuo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108426084

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Clientelism, Capitalism, and Democracy by Didi Kuo Pdf

In the United States and Britain, capitalists organized in opposition to clientelism and demanded programmatic parties and institutional reforms.

Author : Edward Aspinall,Mada Sukmajati
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814722049

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Electoral Dynamics in Indonesia by Edward Aspinall,Mada Sukmajati Pdf

How do politicians win elected office in Indonesia? To find out, research teams fanned out across the country prior to Indonesia’s 2014 legislative election to record campaign events, interview candidates and canvassers, and observe their interactions with voters. They found that at the grassroots political parties are less important than personal campaign teams and vote brokers who reach out to voters through a wide range of networks associated with religion, ethnicity, kinship, micro enterprises, sports clubs and voluntary groups of all sorts. Above all, candidates distribute patronage—cash, goods and other material benefits—to individual voters and to communities. Electoral Dynamics in Indonesia brings to light the scale and complexity of vote buying and the many uncertainties involved in this style of politics, providing an unusually intimate portrait of politics in a patronage-based system.

Author : Miriam A. Golden,Eugenia Nazrullaeva
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009323239

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The Puzzle of Clientelism by Miriam A. Golden,Eugenia Nazrullaeva Pdf

This Element presents newly-collected cross-national data on reelection rates of lower house national legislators from almost 100 democracies around the world. Reelection rates are low/high in countries where clientelism and vote buying are high/low. Drawing on theory developed to study lobbying, the authors explain why politicians continue clientelist activities although they do not secure reelection. The Element also provides a thorough review of the last decade of literature on clientelism, which the authors define as discretionary resource distribution by political actors. The combination of novel empirical data and theoretically-grounded analysis provides a radically new perspective on clientelism. Finally, the Element suggests that clientelism evolves with economic development, assuming new forms in highly developed democracies but never entirely disappearing.

Author : Dirk Tomsa,Andreas Ufen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415519427

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Party Politics in Southeast Asia by Dirk Tomsa,Andreas Ufen Pdf

Contributing to the growing discourse on political parties in Asia, this book looks at parties in Southeast Asia’s most competitive electoral democracies of Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. It highlights the diverse dynamics of party politics in the region and provides new insights into organizational structures, mobilizational strategies and the multiple dimensions of linkages between political parties and their voters. The book focuses on the prominence of clientelistic practices and strategies, both within parties as well as between parties and their voters. It demonstrates that clientelism is extremely versatile and can take many forms, ranging from traditional, personalized relationships between a patron and a client to the modern reincarnations of broker-driven network clientelism that is often based on more anonymous relations. The book also discusses how contemporary political parties often combine clientelistic practices with more formal patterns of organization and communication, thus raising questions about neat analytical dichotomies. Straddling the intersection between political science and area studies, this book is of interest to students and scholars of contemporary Southeast Asian politics, and political scientists and Asian Studies specialists with a broader research interest in comparative democratization studies.

Author : Philip Keefer,Razvan Vlaicu
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Democracy, Credibility, and Clientelism by Philip Keefer,Razvan Vlaicu Pdf

"Keefer and Vlaicu demonstrate that sharply different policy choices across democracies can be explained as a consequence of differences in the ability of political competitors to make credible pre-electoral commitments to voters. Politicians can overcome their credibility deficit in two ways. First, they can build reputations. This requires that they fulfill preconditions that in practice are costly--informing voters of their promises, tracking those promises, and ensuring that voters turn out on election day. Alternatively, they can rely on intermediaries--patrons--who are already able to make credible commitments to their clients. Endogenizing credibility in this way, the authors find that targeted transfers and corruption are higher and public good provision lower than in democracies in which political competitors can make credible pre-electoral promises. They also argue that in the absence of political credibility, political reliance on patrons enhances welfare in the short run, in contrast to the traditional view that clientelism in politics is a source of significant policy distortion. However, in the long run reliance on patrons may undermine the emergence of credible political parties. The model helps to explain several puzzles. For example, public investment and corruption are higher in young democracies than old; and democratizing reforms succeeded remarkably in Victorian England, in contrast to the more difficult experiences of many democratizing countries, such as the Dominican Republic. This paper--a product of the Growth and Investment Team, Development Research Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to investigate the political economy of development"--World Bank web site.

Author : Susan C. Stokes,Thad Dunning,Marcelo Nazareno
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107042209

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Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism by Susan C. Stokes,Thad Dunning,Marcelo Nazareno Pdf

Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism studies distributive politics: how parties and governments use material resources to win elections. The authors develop a theory that explains why loyal supporters, rather than swing voters, tend to benefit from pork-barrel politics; why poverty encourages clientelism and vote buying; and why redistribution and voter participation do not justify non-programmatic distribution.

Author : Mariela Szwarcberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107114081

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Mobilizing Poor Voters by Mariela Szwarcberg Pdf

Using network analysis and quantitative and qualitative data, this book explains why candidates use clientelistic strategies to mobilize poor voters.

Author : Allen Hicken,Edward Aspinall,Meredith Leigh Weiss
Publisher : National University of Singapore Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Elections
ISBN : 9813250526

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Electoral Dynamics in the Philippines by Allen Hicken,Edward Aspinall,Meredith Leigh Weiss Pdf

"The role of clientism, political machines, and money in grassroots electioneering in the Philippines has been much analyzed by those who study the subject, but never as extensively as Allen Hicken, Edward Aspinall, and Meredith Weiss do in Electoral Dynamics in the Philippines. Combining in-depth ethnographic fieldwork in localities across the Philippines during the 2016 elections with polling data and national comparative data, this study sheds light on the organization of elections and electioneering across the Philippines. How do candidates choose to appeal to voters, and how do they get out the vote? How do voters respond to different kinds of appeals? How important are patronage and clientism? What are the networks within which patronage is delivered? What do the political machines look like in elections influenced by social media? The book identifies commonalities and differences across the Philippines while speaking to current debates in political science about elections in developing democracies, the structure and organization of clientelism, and the role of money in elections"--Back cover.

Author : Diego Abente Brun,Larry Diamond
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781421412290

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Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy by Diego Abente Brun,Larry Diamond Pdf

Abente Brun and Diamond invited some of the best social scientists in the field to systematically explore how political clientelism works and evolves in the context of modern developing democracies, with particular reference to social policies aimed at reducing poverty. Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy is balanced between a section devoted to understanding clientelism's infamous effects and history in Latin America and a section that draws out implications for other regions, specifically Africa, Southeast Asia, and Eastern and Central Europe.

Author : Adam Ziegfeld
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781316539002

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Why Regional Parties? by Adam Ziegfeld Pdf

Today, regional parties in India win nearly as many votes as national parties. In Why Regional Parties?, Professor Adam Ziegfeld questions the conventional wisdom that regional parties in India are electorally successful because they harness popular grievances and benefit from strong regional identities. He draws on a wide range of quantitative and qualitative evidence from over eighteen months of field research to demonstrate that regional parties are, in actuality, successful because they represent expedient options for office-seeking politicians. By focusing on clientelism, coalition government, and state-level factional alignments, Ziegfeld explains why politicians in India find membership in a regional party appealing. He therefore accounts for the remarkable success of India's regional parties and, in doing so, outlines how party systems take root and evolve in democracies where patronage, vote buying, and machine politics are common.

Author : Herbert Kitschelt,Steven I. Wilkinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521865050

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Patrons, Clients and Policies by Herbert Kitschelt,Steven I. Wilkinson Pdf

A study of patronage politics and the persistence of clientelism across a range of countries.