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Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy
Diego Abente Brun
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Description for Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy
Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Abente Brun, Diego; Diamond, Larry. Num Pages: 288 pages, 21, 11 graphs, 10 graphs. BIC Classification: JPA; JPB; JPHV. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421412290
SKU
V9781421412290
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About Diego Abente Brun
Diego Abente Brun is a senior associate researcher at Centro de Investigacion y Difusion de la Economia Paraguaya and a senior researcher at CONACYT-Paraguay. He is author or coeditor of several books, including Latin America's Struggle for Democracy, also published by Johns Hopkins, which he coedited with Larry Diamond. Larry Diamond is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and ... Read more
Reviews for Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy
... 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