1st Edition

Varieties of Clientelism Comparing Patronage Democracies

Edited By Edward Aspinall, Ward Berenschot Copyright 2023
170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

Clientelism is a prominent feature of many of the world’s democracies and electoral authoritarian regimes. Yet the comparative study of this practice, which involves exchanging personal favours for electoral support, remains strikingly underdeveloped. This book makes the case that clientelistic politics take different forms in different countries, and that this variation matters for understanding... Read more

1. How clientelism varies: comparing patronage democracies

Ward Berenschot and Edward Aspinall

2. Analytical perspectives on varieties of clientelism

Kerem Yıldırım and Herbert Kitschelt

3. How democratization benefits brokers: a comparison of Mexico City and Khartoum

Ingeborg Denissen

4. Clientelism in small states: how smallness influences patron– client networks in the Caribbean and the Pacific

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5. Clientelism and dominant incumbent parties: party competition in an urban Turkish neighbourhood

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6. Duelling networks: relational clientelism in electoral- authoritarian Malaysia

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7. Democratization, party systems, and the endogenous roots of Ghanaian clientelism

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8. Guns for hire and enduring machines: clientelism beyond parties in Indonesia and the Philippines

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Biography

Edward Aspinall is Professor of Politics at the Australian National University. He is the author of several books, among them Opposing Suharto, Islam and Nation, and Democracy for Sale (with Ward Berenschot).

Ward Berenschot is Professor of Comparative Political Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and Senior Researcher at KITLV. Studying politics in India and Indonesia, he is the author of Riot Politics and Democracy for Sale (with Edward Aspinall).