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This book analyzes the patron-client relationship over both space and time. It covers such areas of the globe as Europe, Africa and Latin America, and such periods in time as ancient Rome, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Poland, as well as twentieth-century America. It also analyzes clientelism in U.S. policy toward the Vietnam War and in Richard J. Daley's mayoral rule over Chicago. In his comparative approach the author makes broad use of theories from such fields as history, sociology, anthropology and linguistics while considering the global scale of the patron-client relationship and the immense role that clientelism has played in world history.
List of contents
Patron-client relationship - Clientele - «Pornography of Politics»: Words and Meaning - Lop-Sided Friendship - Antiquity: The Forgotten Clientele - The Old-Poland Clientele - Mediterranean - Political Parties - The USSR: Collective Leadership - Africa, Dictators - Third World: Unity and Diversity - The Clientele on Global Scale - Clienteles after Communism
About the author
Antoni M¿czak was full Professor of History at the University of Warsaw. He was Fellow of Collegium Invisibile, as well as Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He lectured at many academic centers worldwide, including the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, University of Notre Dame and McGill University. He wrote about the economic history of Poland and on the comparative history of Poland and Europe.
