Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421412292
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This title is balanced between a section devoted to understanding clientelism's infamous effects and history in Latin America and a section that draws out implications for other regions, specifically Africa, Southeast Asia, and Eastern and Central Europe. These rich and instructive case studies glean larger comparative lessons that can help scholars understand how countries regulate the natural sociological reflex toward clientelistic ties in their quest to build that most elusive of all political structures - a fair, efficient, and accountable state based on impersonal criteria and the rule of law.