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Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy (Paperback)
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Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy (Paperback)
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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' 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.
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