Political Parties and Electoral Clientelism
Sergiu Gherghina · Miroslav Nemčok
Sep 2023 · Springer Nature
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135
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Contemporary political parties often use state resources to win elections. In this context, electoral clientelism evolved from the straightforward vote buying to sophisticated exchanges in which the relationship between patrons (parties or candidates) and clients (voters) is sometimes difficult to grasp. We address the question how do the distributive politics and electoral clientelism interact, how these forms of interactions differ across various context, and what implications they bring for the functioning of political systems. The special issue provides theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions to the burgeoning literature about the multi-faceted feature of electoral clientelism. It unfolds the complex relationship between distributive politics and clientelism, and conceptualizes electoral clientelism as a dynamic process that occurs through different sequences. It enriches the methodological tools aimed at investigating electoral clientelism. Finally, the specialissue approaches clientelism from several perspectives and brings together substantive empirical evidence about the varieties of clientelism around the world.
About the author
Sergiu Gherghina is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics, University of Glasgow, UK.
Miroslav Nemčok is Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway.
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