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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"clientelism"”.
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Tamed village “democracy”: elections, governance and clientelism in a contemporary Chinese village
The thesis is an exploration of the elections and governance in a contemporary Chinese village. It is a qualitative case study of one village in Shandong Province, China, using in-depth interviews with villagers, village candidates, township officials as well as national, provincial, township and …
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MASS POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN DEVELOPING DEMOCRACIES: A STUDY OF POLITICAL CLIENTELISM IN THAI PROVINCES
… in some countries, while in other countries, clientelism is thriving and continuing to impact political participation, primarily through vote-buying between patrons and clients. Therefore, the extent to which democratization erodes clientelism as widely expected, could not be assumed. The …
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Global niche markets and local development : clientelism and fairtrade farmer organizations in Paraguay's sugar industry
… within clientelist networks. Under pluralistic clientelism multiple brokers compete with one another and are more likely to mobilize farmers collectively. This permits farmers to build new commercial and institutional relationships and to improve the accountability of their organizations, …
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Does Everyone Have a Price? The Demand Side of Clientelism and Vote-Buying in an Emerging Democracy
<p>Public opinion tools are used to look at voter motivations to engage in clientelistic practices and their variation across structures of competition.</p>
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Bureaucracy and clientelism in an authoritarian context: a case study of local government reforms (2001-2009) in Pakistan
… investigates the extent to which political clientelism is ingrained in the local political organisation of Pakistan. More specifically, it probes to find out how the nature of citizen-politician relationships, voting behaviour, and electoral mechanisms explain the failure of local government …
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The Impact of State-Promoted Participation in Democracy and Development: A Comparison of Venezuela and Mexico
… participation strengthens social capital and clientelism hinders it; and that state-promoted participation strengthens democratic values and clientelism hinders them. The macroeconomic and human development hypothesis is self-explanatory. However, the introduction of the concept of social …
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Businessmen and authoritarianism in Egypt
… private resources. Extending the literature on clientelism, I create a typology of regime-businessmen relations in terms of authoritarian clientelism, semi-clientelism, patron-broker client relationships, and mutual dependency. The thesis further examines how the regime dealt with an opposition …
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Connecting the Nodes. How Social Capital Enhances Local Public Goods' Provision in Shantytowns.
<p>The literature on clientelism has extensively covered the direct exchange of private goods for political support between voters and politicians. Yet, patronage does not end with the distribution of food, medicine or public employment. In poor informal settlements, access to a sanitation system …
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Effects of anti-poverty programs on electoral behavior : evidence from the Mexican Education, Health, and Nutrition Program
… was substantially different from traditional clientelism, but that it challenged local monopolies on political power by increasing voter's income and giving recipients implicit and explicit information about its non-political nature. This weakening of monopolies, in turn, gave political …
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Intermediaries of the state : bureaucratic transaction costs of claiming welfare in Mexico
… for their assistance, a practice better known as clientelism If chentelist intermediaries mediate citizens' engagement with the state, then claiming welfare benefits does not enhance citizenship and produce stakeholders, as research on the welfare state in developed country contexts suggests, but …
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Voting for Corruption: How Poverty and Inequality Undermine Democratic Accountability in Latin America
… exchange. I focus on two such types of exchange, clientelism and crony capitalism, and explain how corruption reinforces these two strategies of political mobilization.</p><p>I argue that the costs of corruption are very high for the poor, who often lose access to government resources they rely on …
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Quid-pro-quo or no? Targeted electoral distribution in Brazil
"Scholarship on clientelism typically defines the practice as the contingent exchange of goods and services for political support, but many fail to adequately consider, both theoretically and empirically, the quid-pro-quo aspect of this relationship. In this dissertation, I describe and document …
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The White Collar Republic: Patronage and Interest Representation in Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1889-1930
… interest representation, but patrimonialism and clientelism that explain Mineiro politics during the First Republic.
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Why do poor people demand accountability from some participatory programs and not others?
… program where this did not happen, patronage and clientelism took over the program, distorted its participatory nature and led to its collapse;
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City growth and community-owned land in Mexico City
… Article 27, informal market, regularization, clientelism.
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Community mobilization and ecological outcomes in peri-urban Mexico City, 1989-1992
… an atmosphere of opaque government, political clientelism, and unique ecological conditions in the Basin of Mexico, how can urbanization be controlled and how can environmental planning be implemented?This thesis examines the processes and conditions that enable environmental planning in …
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Intolerant groups in a democratic state : analyzing political entanglement between state and Aliansi Nasional Anti Syiah (annas) in Indonesia
… to achieve common goals and benefits. Clientelism network theory dissects the underlying motives for this informal relationship. I limit the research focus to the activities of the ANNAS Central Board in Bandung, West Java, and ANNAS Chapter in Solo Raya, Central Java. This qualitative …
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Ghana: From fragility to resilience? Understanding the formation of a new political settlement from a critical political economy perspective
… characterised by electoral competitive clientelism depends on a continued inflow of foreign capital. So far the mutually beneficial interest of portraying Ghana as a resilient state by its elites and donors ensures the flow of needed financial assistance to preserve the settlement.
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A Critical Analysis of Participation and Empowerment in Community Development: An Ethnographic Case Study from Chiapas, Mexico
… learning. Findings examine the influence of clientelism, Catholic liberation theology, and the Zapatista uprising on the ways rural campesinos develop critical consciousness and organize to dismantle systems of oppression. Findings illustrate examples of interactive participation and …
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