Didi Kuo

Clientelism, Capitalism, and Democracy (eBook, ePUB)

The Rise of Programmatic Politics in the United States and Britain

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Political parties in the United States and Britain used clientelism and patronage to govern throughout the nineteenth century. By the twentieth century, however, parties in both countries shifted to programmatic competition. This book argues that capitalists were critical to this shift. Businesses developed new forms of corporate management and capitalist organization, and found clientelism inimical to economic development. Drawing on extensive archival research in the United States and Britain, this book shows how national business organizations pushed parties to adopt programmatic reforms, including administrative capacities and policy-centered campaigns. Parties then shifted from reliance on clientelism as a governing strategy in elections, policy distribution, and bureaucracy. They built modern party organizations and techniques of interest mediation and accommodation. This book provides a novel theory of capitalist interests against clientelism, and argues for a more rigorous understanding of the relationship between capitalism and political development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108595377
• Artikelnr.: 56674417

Autorenporträt

Didi Kuo is the Program Manager of the Program on American Democracy in Comparative Perspective at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, and an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow at New America.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Clientelism as a failure of governance: a theory of business, parties, and programmatic demands
2. Clientelism as a governing strategy in the United States
3. Business organization and the push for programmatic parties
4. Clientelism and governance in Britain, 1850-80
5. Administrative reform and programmatic parties in Britain
Conclusion.