Patrons, Clients and Policies

Patrons, Clients and Policies
Author: Herbert Kitschelt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2007-03-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0521865050

A study of patronage politics and the persistence of clientelism across a range of countries.

Patrons, Clients and Friends

Patrons, Clients and Friends
Author: S. N. Eisenstadt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1984-10-18
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780521288903

About interpersonal relations in society.

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.

Clientelism and Economic Policy

Clientelism and Economic Policy
Author: Aris Trantidis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2016-04-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317326601

With its deep economic crisis and dramatic political developments Greece has puzzled Europe and the world. What explains its long-standing problems and its incapacity to reform its economy? Using an analytic narrative and a comparative approach, the book studies the pattern of economic reforms in Greece between 1985 and 2015. It finds that clientelism - the allocation of selective benefits by political actors (patrons) to their supporters (clients) - created a strong policy bias that prevented the country from implementing deep-cutting reforms. The book shows that the clientelist system differs from the general image of interest-group politics and that the typical view of clientelism, as individual exchange between patrons and clients, has not fully captured the wide range and implications of this phenomenon. From this, the author develops a theory on clientelism and policy-making, addressing key questions on the politics of economic reform, government autonomy and party politics. The book is an essential addition to the literatures on clientelism, public choice theory, and comparative political economy. It will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Union politics, economic policy and party politics.

Making Sense of Corruption

Making Sense of Corruption
Author: Bo Rothstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2017-03-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1107163706

This book provides a systematic analysis of how the understanding of corruption has evolved and pinpoints what constitutes corruption.

The Forgotten Front

The Forgotten Front
Author: Walter C. Ladwig III
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2017-06-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1316764400

After a decade and a half of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, US policymakers are seeking to provide aid and advice to local governments' counterinsurgency campaigns rather than directly intervening with US forces. This strategy, and US counterinsurgency doctrine in general, fail to recognize that despite a shared aim of defeating an insurgency, the US and its local partner frequently have differing priorities with respect to the conduct of counterinsurgency operations. Without some degree of reform or policy change on the part of the insurgency-plagued government, American support will have a limited impact. Using three detailed case studies - the Hukbalahap Rebellion in the Philippines, Vietnam during the rule of Ngo Dinh Diem, and the Salvadorian Civil War - Ladwig demonstrates that providing significant amounts of aid will not generate sufficient leverage to affect a client's behaviour and policies. Instead, he argues that influence flows from pressure and tight conditions on aid rather than from boundless generosity.

Patrons, Brokers, and Clients in Seventeenth-century France

Patrons, Brokers, and Clients in Seventeenth-century France
Author: Sharon Kettering
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 1986
Genre: Decentralization in government
ISBN: 0195036735

A bold new study of politics and power in 17th-century France, this book argues that the French Crown extended its control over the provinces and laid the foundations for a centralized state by removing patronage power from the provincial governors and putting it instead in the hands of newly-created provincial power brokers--regional notables who cooperated with the Paris ministers in exchange for their patronage.

Library Services for Multicultural Patrons

Library Services for Multicultural Patrons
Author: Carol Smallwood
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2013
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0810887223

Increasingly, libraries are struggling to deal with a growing diversity in the cultural background of their patrons. Problems arising from this cultural diversity afflict all library types--school, public and academic. Library Services for Multicultural Patrons is by and for all libraries that are striving to provide multicultural services to match the growing diversity in the cultural background of patrons. The book is designed to offer helpful tips and practical advice to academic, public, and school librarians who want to better serve the multicultural groups in their communities. The contributors to the book are themselves practicing librarians and they share creative ideas for welcoming multicultural patrons into libraries and strategies for serving them more effectively. Librarians will find in these chapters tried and true tips and techniques for marketing and promotion, improving reference services for speakers of English as a second language, and enhancing programming that they can easily implement in their own libraries and communities. The chapters are divided into the following categories for ease of access: 1) Getting Organized and Finding Partners, 2) Reaching Students, 3) Community Connections, 4) Applying Technology, 6) Outreach Initiatives, 6) Programming and Events, and 7) Reference Services. Librarians of all types will be pleased to discover easy-to-implement suggestions for collaborative efforts, many rich and diverse programming ideas, strategies for improving reference services and library instruction to speakers of English as a second language, marketing and promotional tips designed to welcome multicultural patrons into the library, and much more.

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.