Virginia Oliveros (Louisiana Tulane University)

Patronage at Work

Public Jobs and Political Services in Argentina

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using a mixed methods research design, Oliveros examines how patronage â the exchange of public sector jobs for political support â works. The book provides a detailed description of what patronage employees do in exchange for their jobs, as well as a novel explanation of why they do it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 265
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9781009077354
• ISBN-10: 100907735X
• Artikelnr.: 68032362

Autorenporträt

Virginia Oliveros is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tulane University. She co-edited (with Noam Lupu and Luis Schiumerini) Campaigns and Voters in Developing Democracies (2019). Her research has appeared in American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and Comparative Politics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. A Theory of Self-Enforcing Patronage
3 Getting the Job
4. Patronage Contracts and Political Services: Evidence from List Experiments
5. Patronage, Favors, and the Personalization of Public Administration
6. Self- Enforcing Patronage Contracts
7. Beyond the Argentine Case
8. Conclusions and Broader Implications.