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Patrons, clients, and policies : patterns of democratic accountability and political competition / edited by Herbert Kitschelt and Steven I. Wilkinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Patron and client.
- Comparative government.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 377 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- A study of patronage politics and the persistence of clientelism across a range of countries.
- Contents:
- 1 Citizen-politician linkages: an introduction / Herbert Kitschelt, Steven I. Wilkinson 1
- 2 Meet the new boss, same as the old boss? The evolution of political clientelism in Africa / Nicolas Van De Walle 50
- 3 Monopoly and monitoring: an approach to political clientelism / Luis Fernando Medina, Susan C. Stokes 68
- 4 Counting heads: a theory of voter and elite behavior in patronage democracies / Kanchan Chandra 84
- 5 Explaining changing patterns of party-voter linkages in India / Steven I. Wilkinson 110
- 6 Politics in the middle: mediating relationships between the citizens and the state in rural North India / Anirudh Krishna 141
- 7 Rethinking economics and institutions: the voter's dilemma and democratic accountability / Mona M. Lyne 159
- 8 Clientelism and portfolio diversification: a model of electoral investment with applications to Mexico / Beatriz Magaloni, Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Federico Estevez 182
- 9 From populism to clientelism? The transformation of labor-based party linkages in Latin America / Steven Levitsky 206
- 10 Correlates of clientelism: political economy, politicized ethnicity, and post-communist transition / Henry E. Hale 227
- 11 Political institutions and linkage strategies / Wolfgang C. Muller 251
- 12 Clientelism in Japan: the importance and limits of institutional explanations / Ethan Scheiner 276
- 13 The demise of clientelism in affluent capitalist democracies / Herbert Kitschelt 298
- 14 A research agenda for the study of citizen-politician linkages and democratic accountability / Herbert Kitschelt, Steven I. Wilkinson 322.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-370) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521865050
- 9780521865050
- 0521690048
- 9780521690041
- OCLC:
- 71347565
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