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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Trade Review... Clarifies its overall claim about clientelism, a distorting and arbitrary distributive pattern that could be improved. Those interested in these issues should thus not miss this highly recommendable book. Political Studies Review
Table of ContentsContributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Evaluating Political Clientelism
Part I: Lessons in Clientelism from Latin America
Chapter 1. Partisan Linkages and Social Policy Delivery in Argentina and Chile
Chapter 2. Chile's Education Transfers, 2001–2009
Chapter 3. The Future of Peru's Brokered Democracy
Chapter 4. Teachers, Mayors, and the Transformation of Clientelism in Colombia
Chapter 5. Lessons Learned While Studying Clientelistic Politics in the Gray Zone
Chapter 6. Political Clientelism and Social Policy in Brazil
Part II: Lessons in Clientelism from Other Regions
Chapter 7. Patronage, Democracy, and Ethnic Politics in India
Chapter 8. Linking Capital and Countryside: Patronage and Clientelism in Japan, Thailand, and the Philippines
Chapter 9. Eastern European Postcommunist Variants of Political Clientelism and Social Policy
Chapter 10. The Democratization of Clientelism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Conclusion: Defining Political Clientelism's Persistence
Index
