Votes for Survival - Relational Clientelism in Latin America

Explores the critical role citizens play in sustaining clientelism, despite threats of structural changes, institutional reforms, legal enforcement and partisan strategies.

List of contents

1. Introduction; Part I. Electoral Clientelism: 2. Challenges for electoral clientelism; Part II. Relational Clientelism: 3. Citizens and relational clientelism; 4. Income and vulnerability; 5. Declared support; 6. Requesting benefits; Part III. Extensions: 7. Citizen strategies in comparative context; 8. Conclusion.

About the author

Simeon Nichter is Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego. He has published articles in the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Electoral Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, and World Development. Previously, he served as Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Global Development. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.P.A. in International Development from Harvard Kennedy School.

Summary

This book focuses on clientelism, the pattern of exchanges between politicians and votes as citizens promise to vote for a politician in order to receive benefits. While many scholars have explored the threats to clientelism, this book is the first exploration into why clientelism survives, and even thrives, in certain countries.

Product details

• Authors: Simeon Nichter, Simeon (University of California Nichter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781108449502
• ISBN: 978-1-108-44950-2
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics; Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Political structure & processes, Comparative Politics, Constitution: government and the state