Clientelism, Capitalism, and Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clientelism, Capitalism, and Democracy write by Didi Kuo. This book was released on 2018-08-16. Clientelism, Capitalism, and Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the United States and Britain, capitalists organized in opposition to clientelism and demanded programmatic parties and institutional reforms.
Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism
Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism write by Susan C. Stokes. This book was released on 2013-09-23. Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Patrons, Clients and Policies
Patrons, Clients and Policies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Patrons, Clients and Policies write by Herbert Kitschelt. This book was released on 2007-03-29. Patrons, Clients and Policies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of patronage politics and the persistence of clientelism across a range of countries.
Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy
Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy write by Diego Abente Brun. This book was released on 2014-03-01. Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. World-renowned scholars explore how political clientelism works and evolves in the context of modern developing democracies. What happens when vote buying becomes a means of social policy? Although one could cynically ask this question just as easily about the United States’s mature democracy, Diego Abente Brun and Larry Diamond ask this question about democracies in the developing world through an assessment of political clientelism, or what is commonly known as patronage. Studies of political clientelism, whether deployed through traditional vote-buying techniques or through the politicized use of social spending, were a priority in the 1970s, when democratization efforts around the world flourished. With the rise of the Washington Consensus and neoliberal economic policies during the late-1980s, clientelism studies were moved to the back of the scholarly agenda. 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. These rich and instructive case studies glean larger comparative lessons that can help scholars understand how countries regulate the natural sociological reflex toward clientelistic ties in their quest to build that most elusive of all political structures—a fair, efficient, and accountable state based on impersonal criteria and the rule of law. In an era when democracy is increasingly snagged on the age-old practice of patronage, students and scholars of political science, comparative politics, democratization, and international development and economics will be interested in this assessment, which calls for the study of better, more efficient, and just governance.
Democracy Against Capitalism
Democracy Against Capitalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy Against Capitalism write by Ellen Meiksins Wood. This book was released on 2016-03-01. Democracy Against Capitalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Historian and political thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of “postmodern” fragmentation, “difference,” and con-tingency can barely accommodate the idea of capitalism, let alone subject it to critique. In this book she sets out to renew the critical program of historical materialism by redefining its basic concepts and its theory of history in original and imaginative ways, using them to identify the specificity of capitalism as a system of social relations and political power. She goes on to explore the concept of democracy in both the ancient and modern world, examining its relation to capitalism, and raising questions about how democracy might go beyond the limits imposed on it.
