Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of contributors
- 1 Citizen–politician linkages: an introduction
- 2 Meet the new boss, same as the old boss? The evolution of political clientelism in Africa
- 3 Monopoly and monitoring: an approach to political clientelism
- 4 Counting heads: a theory of voter and elite behavior in patronage democracies
- 5 Explaining changing patterns of party–voter linkages in India
- 6 Politics in the middle: mediating relationships between the citizens and the state in rural North India
- 7 Rethinking economics and institutions: the voter's dilemma and democratic accountability
- 8 Clientelism and portfolio diversification: a model of electoral investment with applications to Mexico
- 9 From populism to clientelism? The transformation of labor-based party linkages in Latin America
- 10 Correlates of clientelism: political economy, politicized ethnicity, and post-communist transition
- 11 Political institutions and linkage strategies
- 12 Clientelism in Japan: the importance and limits of institutional explanations
- 13 The demise of clientelism in affluent capitalist democracies
- 14 A research agenda for the study of citizen–politician linkages and democratic accountability
- References
- Index
13 - The demise of clientelism in affluent capitalist democracies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of contributors
- 1 Citizen–politician linkages: an introduction
- 2 Meet the new boss, same as the old boss? The evolution of political clientelism in Africa
- 3 Monopoly and monitoring: an approach to political clientelism
- 4 Counting heads: a theory of voter and elite behavior in patronage democracies
- 5 Explaining changing patterns of party–voter linkages in India
- 6 Politics in the middle: mediating relationships between the citizens and the state in rural North India
- 7 Rethinking economics and institutions: the voter's dilemma and democratic accountability
- 8 Clientelism and portfolio diversification: a model of electoral investment with applications to Mexico
- 9 From populism to clientelism? The transformation of labor-based party linkages in Latin America
- 10 Correlates of clientelism: political economy, politicized ethnicity, and post-communist transition
- 11 Political institutions and linkage strategies
- 12 Clientelism in Japan: the importance and limits of institutional explanations
- 13 The demise of clientelism in affluent capitalist democracies
- 14 A research agenda for the study of citizen–politician linkages and democratic accountability
- References
- Index
Summary
The practice of political clientelism in four stable, affluent, post-industrial countries with democratic practices – Austria, Belgium, Italy, and Japan – goes back to the beginning of the post-World War II period, but has older origins. The persistence of clientelism in these polities is at odds with theories of political development, state formation, and democratic institutions. Such theories would not expect to encounter a prominence of clientelistic linkages in wealthy democracies (all four countries), in countries with early bureaucratic-professional state formation (Austria and Japan) and with democratic institutions inimical to personalist candidate competition (Austria, Belgium).
While the explanatory domain of development theories for clientelism may be impressive in global comparative analysis, it requires a supplement and replacement for these four affluent OECD countries that draws on the analysis of political-economic governance structures and is loosely inspired by the variety of capitalism literature (Hall and Soskice 2001). Given certain conditions, different property rights and governance structures across a range of countries may deliver similar rates of growth and development. Some of these growth-enhancing governance structures involve a political allocation of scarce resources either through outright state ownership and control of productive facilities or the indirect guidance of private market participants through public regulatory and financial inducements. Such arrangements – as well as some institutional designs to deliver social policy benefits – retrospectively turned out to facilitate the growth of clientelistic linkage practices between politicians and electoral constituencies and in some instances may well have been designed to deliver such consequences.
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- Patrons, Clients and PoliciesPatterns of Democratic Accountability and Political Competition, pp. 298 - 321Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007
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