Herbert Kitschelt / Steven I. Wilkinson (eds.)

Patrons, Clients, and Policies

Patterns of Democratic Accountability and Political Competition
Herausgeber: Kitschelt, Herbert; Wilkinson, Steven I.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Most models of party competition assume that citizens vote for a platform rather than narrowly targeted material benefits. However, there are many countries where politicians win elections by giving money, jobs, and services in direct exchange for votes. This is not just true in the developing world, but also in economically developed countries - such as Japan and Austria - that clearly meet the definition of stable, modern democracies. This book offers explanations for why politicians engage in clientelistic behaviours and why voters respond. Using newly collected data on national and sub-national patterns of patronage and electoral competition, the contributors demonstrate why explanations based on economic modernization or electoral institutions cannot account for international variation in patron-client and programmatic competition. Instead, they show how the interaction of economic development, party competition, governance of the economy, and ethnic heterogeneity may work together to determine the choices of patrons, clients and policies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780521690041
• ISBN-10: 0521690048
• Artikelnr.: 22449657

Autorenporträt

Herbert Kitschelt is George V. Allen Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at Duke University. He is the editor of Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism (with Peter Lange, Gary Marks and John D. Stephens, 1999) and author of Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party Cooperation (with Zdenka Mansfeldova, Radoslaw Markowski and Gabor Toka, 1999), The Transformation of European Social Democracy (1994) and The Radical Right in Western Europe (1995) which won the Woodrow Wilson Award of the APSA in 1996.
Steven I. Wilkinson is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Duke University. He is the author of Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in India (2004) which won the Woodrow Wilson Award of the APSA in 2005.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Citizen-politician linkages: an introduction Herbert Kitschelt and
Steven I. Wilkinson; 2. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss? The
evolution of political clientelism in Africa Nicolas Van de Walle; 3.
Monopoly and monitoring: an approach to political clientelism Luis Fernando
Medina and Susan C. Stokes; 4. Counting heads: a theory of voter and elite
behavior in patronage democracies Kanchan Chandra; 5. Explaining changing
patterns of party-voter linkages in India Steven I. Wilkinson; 6. Politics
in the middle: mediating relationships between the citizens and the state
in rural North India Anirudh Krishna; 7. Rethinking economics and
institutions: the voter's dilemma and democratic accountability Mona M.
Lyne; 8. Clientelism and portfolio diversification: a model of electoral
investment with applications to Mexico Beatriz Magaloni, Alberto
Diaz-Cayeros and Federico Estévez; 9. From populism to clientelism? The
transformation of labor-based party linkages in Latin America Steven
Levitsky; 10. Correlates of clientelism: political economy, politicized
ethnicity, and postcommunist transition Henry Hale; 11. Political
institutions and linkage strategies Wolfgang C. Müller; 12. Clientelism in
Japan: the importance and limits of institutional explanations Ethan
Scheiner; 13. The demise of clientelism in affluent capitalist democracies
Herbert Kitschelt; 14. A research agenda for the study of
citizen-politician linkages and democratic accountability Herbert Kitschelt
and Steven I. Wilkinson.