pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
Visit our new collection website www.collectionsforschool.co.uk
     
Email: Subscribe to news & offers:
Need assistance? Log In/Register


Item Details
Title: CLIENTELISM, SOCIAL POLICY, AND THE QUALITY OF DEMOCRACY
By: Diego Abente Brun (Editor), Larry Diamond (Editor)
Format: Paperback

List price: £33.00
Our price: £29.70
Discount:
10% off
You save: £3.30
ISBN 10: 1421412292
ISBN 13: 9781421412290
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.
 Delivery rates
Stock: Currently 0 available
Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 29 January, 2014
Pages: 288
Description: 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.
Synopsis: 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's 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, clientelism studies were moved to the back of the scholarly agenda. Abente Brun and Diamond invited some of the best social scientists in the field to systematically explore how political clientelism works and evolves in the context of modern developing democracies, with particular reference to social policies aimed at reducing poverty. Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy is balanced between a section devoted to understanding clientelism's infamous effects and history in Latin America and a section that draws out implications for other regions, specifically Africa, Southeast Asia, and Eastern and Central Europe. These rich and instructive case studies glean larger comparative lessons that can help scholars understand how countries regulate the natural sociological reflex toward clientelistic ties in their quest to build that most elusive of all political structures-a fair, efficient, and accountable state based on impersonal criteria and the rule of law.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.
Illustrations: 10 Graphs; 11 Graphs
Publication: US
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Returns: Returnable
Some other items by this author:
ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF DEMOCRACY (HB)
ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF DEMOCRACY (PB)
AUTHORITARIANISM GOES GLOBAL
AUTHORITARIANISM GOES GLOBAL (PB)
CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM, AND DEMOCRACY REVISITED (PB)
CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS AND DEMOCRACY (PB)
CLASS, ETHNICITY, AND DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA (HB)
CLIENTELISM, SOCIAL POLICY, AND THE QUALITY OF DEMOCRACY
CLIENTELISM, SOCIAL POLICY, AND THE QUALITY OF DEMOCRACY (HB)
CONSOLIDATING DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH KOREA (HB)
CONSOLIDATING THE THIRD WAVE DEMOCRACIES (PB)
CONSOLIDATING THE THIRD WAVE DEMOCRACIES (PB)
DEBATES ON DEMOCRATIZATION (HB)
DEBATES ON DEMOCRATIZATION (PB)
DEMOCRACY (HB)
DEMOCRACY (PB)
DEMOCRACY AFTER COMMUNISM (PB)
DEMOCRACY AND PREBENDALISM IN NIGERIA
DEMOCRACY AND PREBENDALISM IN NIGERIA (HB)
DEMOCRACY AND PREBENDALISM IN NIGERIA (PB)
DEMOCRACY IN DECLINE?
DEMOCRACY IN DECLINE? (HB)
DEMOCRACY IN DECLINE? (PB)
DEMOCRACY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (PB)
DEMOCRACY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (PB)
DEMOCRACY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES : ASIA (PB)
DEMOCRACY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: LATIN AMERICA (PB)
DEMOCRACY IN EAST ASIA
DEMOCRACY IN EAST ASIA (HB)
DEMOCRACY IN EAST ASIA (PB)
DEMOCRACY IN EAST ASIA (PB)
DEMOCRATIZATION AND AUTHORITARIANISM IN THE ARAB WORLD
DEMOCRATIZATION AND AUTHORITARIANISM IN THE ARAB WORLD (PB)
DEMOCRATIZATION IN AFRICA (HB)
DEMOCRATIZATION IN AFRICA (HB)
DEMOCRATIZATION IN AFRICA (PB)
DEMOCRATIZATION IN AFRICA (PB)
DEVELOPING DEMOCRACY (PB)
ECONOMIC REFORM AND DEMOCRACY (PB)
ELECTIONS AND DEMOCRACY IN GREATER CHINA (PB)
ELECTORAL SYSTEMS AND DEMOCRACY (HB)
ELECTORAL SYSTEMS AND DEMOCRACY (PB)
FEDERALISM AND ETHNIC CONFLICT IN NIGERIA (PB)
HOW EAST ASIANS VIEW DEMOCRACY
HOW EAST ASIANS VIEW DEMOCRACY (HB)
HOW EAST ASIANS VIEW DEMOCRACY (PB)
HOW PEOPLE VIEW DEMOCRACY (HB)
HOW PEOPLE VIEW DEMOCRACY (PB)
ILL WINDS
ILL WINDS (HB)
IN SEARCH OF DEMOCRACY
IN SEARCH OF DEMOCRACY
IN SEARCH OF DEMOCRACY
IN SEARCH OF DEMOCRACY (HB)
IN SEARCH OF DEMOCRACY (PB)
INSTITUTIONAL REFORM AND DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION IN KOREA (PB)
ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST (PB)
ISRAELI DEMOCRACY UNDER STRESS (HB)
ISRAELI DEMOCRACY UNDER STRESS (PB)
KEEPING BASEMENTS DRY
LATIN AMERICA'S STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY (HB)
LATIN AMERICA'S STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY (PB)
LIBERATION TECHNOLOGY
LIBERATION TECHNOLOGY (HB)
LIBERATION TECHNOLOGY (PB)
NATIONALISM, ETHNIC CONFLICT, AND DEMOCRACY (PB)
NEW CHALLENGES FOR MATURING DEMOCRACIES IN KOREA AND TAIWAN (HB)
NEW CHALLENGES FOR MATURING DEMOCRACIES IN KOREA AND TAIWAN (PB)
NIGERIA IN SEARCH OF DEMOCRACY (HB)
POLITICAL CHANGE IN CHINA (HB)
POLITICAL CHANGE IN CHINA (PB)
POLITICAL CULTURE AND DEMOCRACY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (PB)
POLITICAL PARTIES AND DEMOCRACY (PB)
POLITICS AND CULTURE IN CONTEMPORARY IRAN (HB)
POLITICS AND CULTURE IN CONTEMPORARY IRAN (PB)
POLITICS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (PB)
POLITICS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (PB)
POVERTY, INEQUALITY, AND DEMOCRACY (PB)
REEXAMINING DEMOCRACY (HB)
SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY (PB)
TAIWAN'S DEMOCRACY CHALLENGED (HB)
TAIWAN'S DEMOCRACY CHALLENGED (PB)
THE DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION (HB)
THE DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION (PB)
THE GLOBAL DIVERGENCE OF DEMOCRACIES (PB)
THE GLOBAL RESURGENCE OF DEMOCRACY (PB)
THE SELF-RESTRAINING STATE (HB)
THE SELF-RESTRAINING STATE (PB)
THE STATE OF INDIA'S DEMOCRACY (HB)
THE STATE OF INDIA'S DEMOCRACY (PB)
TRANSITION WITHOUT END (HB)
WILL CHINA DEMOCRATIZE?
WILL CHINA DEMOCRATIZE? (PB)
WORLD RELIGIONS AND DEMOCRACY (HB)
WORLD RELIGIONS AND DEMOCRACY (PB)

TOP SELLERS IN THIS CATEGORY
Edexcel GCE Politics AS and A-level Student Book and eBook (Mixed media product)
Pearson Education Limited
Our Price : £42.54
more details
Disorder (Hardback)
OUP Oxford
Our Price : £15.69
more details
Tyranny of Merit (Paperback)
Penguin Books Ltd
Our Price : £8.02
more details
World Order (Paperback)
Penguin Books Ltd
Our Price : £8.02
more details
Edexcel AS/A Level History, Paper 1&2: Nationalism, Dictatorship and Democracy in 20th Century Europe (Mixed media product)
Pearson Education Limited
Our Price : £36.01
more details
BROWSE FOR BOOKS IN RELATED CATEGORIES
 SOCIAL SCIENCES
 politics & government
 political structure & processes
 political structures: democracy


Information provided by www.pickabook.co.uk
SHOPPING BASKET
  
Your basket is empty
  Total Items: 0
 

NEW
Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr A celebratory, inclusive and educational exploration of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr for both children that celebrate and children who want to understand and appreciate their peers who do.
add to basket

Learning
That''s My Story!: Drama for Confidence, Communication and C... The ability to communicate is an essential life skill for all children, underpinning their confidence, personal and social wellbeing, and sense of self.
add to basket