Clientelism
Series: Elements in Austrian Economics;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 30 November 2025
- ISBN 9781009707671
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages75 pages
- Weight 500 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
With analysis, clientelism challenges common perceptions of democracy, state power, corruption, and the government's role in the economy.
MoreLong description:
This Element examines clientelism and its impact on democratic institutions and markets, emphasizing that, alongside electoral competition, politics hosts two additional arenas: one where political actors seek campaign resources and active supporters, and another where socioeconomic actors pursue access to state-distributed resources. Clientelism emerges from reciprocal exchanges between these actors. Political parties use clientelism to incentivize collective action and organize campaigns. Playing this 'clientelist game', no party can reduce clientelistic practices without risking electoral defeat or internal fragmentation. Clientelism weakens the provision of public goods and skews policymaking to benefit clients over general welfare. Eventually, it generates an economic 'tragedy of the commons', as state resources are overexploited and the economy suffers, while formal institutions often fail to constrain it. Even in advanced democracies like the United States, political competition is not only electoral, targeting voters, but structurally clientelist. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction: clientelism and politics; 1. Clientelism and politics; 2. Clientelism and policy; References.
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