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Author:   Diego Abente Brun (Senior Associate Researcher, Centro de Investigación y Difusión de la Economía Paraguaya (CADEP)) ,  Larry Diamond (Director, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9781421412290

ISBN 10:   1421412292
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   26 April 2014
Recommended Age:   From 13
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contributors Preface Acknowledgments Introduction. Evaluating Political Clientelism Part I: Lessons in Clientelism from Latin America Chapter 1. Partisan Linkages and Social Policy Delivery in Argentina and Chile Chapter 2. Chile's Education Transfers, 2001–2009 Chapter 3. The Future of Peru's Brokered Democracy Chapter 4. Teachers, Mayors, and the Transformation of Clientelism in Colombia Chapter 5. Lessons Learned While Studying Clientelistic Politics in the Gray Zone Chapter 6. Political Clientelism and Social Policy in Brazil Part II: Lessons in Clientelism from Other Regions Chapter 7. Patronage, Democracy, and Ethnic Politics in India Chapter 8. Linking Capital and Countryside: Patronage and Clientelism in Japan, Thailand, and the Philippines Chapter 9. Eastern European Postcommunist Variants of Political Clientelism and Social Policy Chapter 10. The Democratization of Clientelism in Sub-Saharan Africa Conclusion: Defining Political Clientelism's Persistence Index

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... Clarifies its overall claim about clientelism, a distorting and arbitrary distributive pattern that could be improved. Those interested in these issues should thus not miss this highly recommendable book. * Political Studies Review *

... Clarifies its overall claim about clientelism, a distorting and arbitrary distributive pattern that could be improved. Those interested in these issues should thus not miss this highly recommendable book. Political Studies Review

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Diego Abente Brun is a senior associate researcher at Centro de Investigacion y Difusion de la Economia Paraguaya and a senior researcher at CONACYT-Paraguay. He is author or coeditor of several books, including Latin America's Struggle for Democracy, also published by Johns Hopkins, which he coedited with Larry Diamond. Larry Diamond is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, where he directs the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.

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