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Author : Virginia Oliveros
Release : 2021-11-25
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 080/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Patronage at Work by : Virginia Oliveros
Download or read book Patronage at Work written by Virginia Oliveros. This book was released on 2021-11-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes what patronage employees do in exchange for their jobs and provides a novel explanation of why they do it.
Author : Virginia Oliveros
Release : 2021-11-25
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 78X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Patronage at Work by : Virginia Oliveros
Download or read book Patronage at Work written by Virginia Oliveros. This book was released on 2021-11-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In countries around the world, politicians distribute patronage jobs to supporters in exchange for a wide range of political services – such as helping with campaigns and electoral mobilization. Patronage employees (clients) engage in these political activities that support politicians (patrons) because their fates are tied to the political fate of their patrons. Although conventional wisdom holds that control of patronage significantly increases an incumbent's chance of staying in power, we actually know very little about how patronage works. Drawing on in-depth interviews, survey data, and survey experiments in Argentina, Virginia Oliveros details the specific mechanisms that explain the effect of patronage on political competition. This fascinating study is the first to provide a systematic analysis of the political activities of mid and low-level public employees in Latin America. It provides a novel explanation of the enforcement of patronage contracts that has wider implications for understanding the functioning of clientelist exchanges.
Author : Ben Hillman
Release : 2014-05-14
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 619/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Patronage and Power by : Ben Hillman
Download or read book Patronage and Power written by Ben Hillman. This book was released on 2014-05-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power and Patronage examines the unwritten rules and inner workings of contemporary China's local politics and government. It exposes how these rules have helped to keep the one-Party state together during decades of tumultuous political, social, and economic change. While many observers of Chinese politics have recognized the importance of informal institutions, this book explains how informal local groups actually operate, paying special attention to the role of patronage networks in political decision-making, political competition, and official corruption. While patronage networks are often seen as a parasite on the formal institutions of state, Hillman shows that patronage politics actually help China's political system function. In a system characterized by fragmented authority, personal power relations, and bureaucratic indiscipline, patronage networks play a critical role in facilitating policy coordination and bureaucratic bargaining. They also help to regulate political competition within the state, which reduces the potential for open conflict. Understanding patronage networks is essential for understanding the resilience of the Chinese state through decades of change. Power and Patronage is filled with rich and fascinating accounts of the machinations of patronage networks and their role in the ruthless and sometimes violent competition for political power.
Author : Merilee S. Grindle
Release : 2012-06-11
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 182/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Jobs for the Boys by : Merilee S. Grindle
Download or read book Jobs for the Boys written by Merilee S. Grindle. This book was released on 2012-06-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patronage systems in the public service are universally reviled as undemocratic and corrupt. Yet patronage was the prevailing method of staffing government for centuries, and in some countries it still is. In Jobs for the Boys, Merilee Grindle considers why patronage has been so ubiquitous in history and explores the political processes through which it is replaced by merit-based civil service systems. Such reforms are consistently resisted, she finds, because patronage systems, though capricious, offer political executives flexibility to achieve a wide variety of objectives. Grindle looks at the histories of public sector reform in six developed countries and compares them with contemporary struggles for reform in four Latin American countries. A historical, case-based approach allows her to take into account contextual differences between countries as well as to identify cycles that govern reform across the board. As a rule, she finds, transition to merit-based systems involves years and sometimes decades of conflict and compromise with supporters of patronage, as new systems of public service are politically constructed. Becoming aware of the limitations of public sector reform, Grindle hopes, will temper expectations for institutional change now being undertaken.
Author : Colum Hourihane
Release : 2013
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 742/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Patronage by : Colum Hourihane
Download or read book Patronage written by Colum Hourihane. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume, from those that look at patronage from a theoretical perspective as it relates to issues such as gender, social and economic history, to individual case studies, highlight our need to look at the subject anew.
