Clientelism in Everyday Latin American Politics

Clientelism in Everyday Latin American Politics
Author: T. Hilgers
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012-12-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137275995

This book improves understandings of how and why clientelism endures in Latin America and why state policy is often ineffective. Political scientists and sociologists, the contributors employ ethnography, targeted interviews, case studies, within-case and regional comparison, thick descriptions, and process tracing.

Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism

Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism
Author: Susan C. Stokes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2013-09-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107042208

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.

Votes for Survival

Votes for Survival
Author: Simeon Nichter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2018-11-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108428363

Explores the critical role citizens play in sustaining clientelism, despite threats of structural changes, institutional reforms, legal enforcement and partisan strategies.

Poor People's Politics

Poor People's Politics
Author: Javier Auyero
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780822326212

DIVExamines how Argentina's urban poor use political networks and informal webs of reciprocal help to solve their everyday survival needs/div

Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean

Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: Tina Hilgers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2017-09-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108140912

Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean is no longer perpetrated primarily by states against their citizens, but by a variety of state and non-state actors struggling to control resources, territories, and populations. This book examines violence at the subnational level to illuminate how practices of violence are embedded within subnational configurations of space and clientelistic networks. In societies shaped by centuries of violence and exclusion, inequality and marginalization prevail at the same time that democratization and neoliberalism have decentralized power to regional and local levels, where democratic and authoritarian practices coexist. Within subnational arenas, unique configurations - of historical legacies, economic structures, identities, institutions, actors, and clientelistic networks - result in particular patterns of violence and vulnerability that are often strikingly different from what is portrayed by aggregate national-level statistics. The chapters of this book examine critical cases from across the region, drawing on new primary data collected in the field to analyze how a range of political actors and institutions shape people's lives and to connect structural and physical forms of violence.

The Routledge Handbook to the Political Economy and Governance of the Americas

The Routledge Handbook to the Political Economy and Governance of the Americas
Author: Olaf Kaltmeier
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2020-01-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351138421

This handbook explores the political economy and governance of the Americas, placing particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences. Forty-six chapters cover a range of Inter-American key concepts and dynamics. The flow of peoples, goods, resources, knowledge and finances have on the one hand promoted interdependence and integration that cut across borders and link the countries of North and South America (including the Caribbean) together. On the other hand, they have contributed to profound asymmetries between different places. The nature of this transversally related and multiply interconnected hemispheric region can only be captured through a transnational, multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach. This handbook examines the direct and indirect political interventions, geopolitical imaginaries, inequalities, interlinked economic developments and the forms of appropriation of the vast natural resources in the Americas. Expert contributors give a comprehensive overview of the theories, practices and geographies that have shaped the economic dynamics of the region and their impact on both the political and natural landscape. This multidisciplinary approach will be of interest to a broad array of academic scholars and students in history, sociology, geography, economics and political science, as well as cultural, postcolonial, environmental and globalization studies.

Clientelism, Capitalism, and Democracy

Clientelism, Capitalism, and Democracy
Author: Didi Kuo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2018-08-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108426085

In the United States and Britain, capitalists organized in opposition to clientelism and demanded programmatic parties and institutional reforms.

Mobilizing Poor Voters

Mobilizing Poor Voters
Author: Mariela Szwarcberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2015-07-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 110711408X

Using network analysis and quantitative and qualitative data, this book explains why candidates use clientelistic strategies to mobilize poor voters.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Political Science

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Political Science
Author: Harold Kincaid
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 617
Release: 2023-01-11
Genre: Political science
ISBN: 0197519806

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Political Science contains twenty-seven freshly written chapters to give the reader a panoramic introduction to philosophical issues in the practice of political science. Simultaneously, it advances the field of Philosophy of Political Science by creating a fruitful meeting place where both philosophers and practicing political scientists contribute and discuss. These philosophical discussions are close to and informed by actual developments in political science, making philosophy of science continuous with the sciences, another aspiration that motivates this volume. The chapters fall under four headings: (1) evaluating theoretical frameworks in political science; (2) methodological challenges and reconciliations; (3) the purposes and uses of political science; and, (4) the interactions between political science and society. Specific topics discussed include the biology of political attitudes, intra-agent mechanisms, rational choice explanations, theories of collective action, explaining institutional change, conceptualizing and measuring democracy, process tracing, qualitative comparative analysis, interpretivism and positivism, mixed methods, within-cause causal inference, evidential pluralism, lab and field experiments, external validity, contextualization, prediction, expertise, clientelism, feminism, values, and progress in political science.

Clientelism and Democratic Representation in Comparative Perspective

Clientelism and Democratic Representation in Comparative Perspective
Author: Saskia Ruth-Lovell
Publisher: ECPR Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1785523015

Since the Third Wave of democratization research on clientelism has experienced a revival. The puzzling persistence of clientelism in new and old democracies inspired researchers to investigate the micro-foundations and causes of this phenomenon. Though the decline of clientelistic practices - such as vote buying and patronage - in democratic contexts has often been predicted, they have proven to be highly adaptive strategies of electoral mobilization and party building. This volume seeks to contribute to this new line of research and develops a theoretical framework to study the consequences of clientelism for democratic governance. Under governance we understand "all processes of governing, whether undertaken by a government, market, or network, whether over a family, tribe, formal or informal organization, or territory, and whether through laws, norms, power or language".