CLIENTELISM

In: Political studies, Band XXX1, Heft 4, S. 662-667

Abstract

THE TWO VALUABLE COLLECTIVE VOLUMES1 UNDER REVIEW HAVE MUCH IN COMMON. THEY ASSEMBLE PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED STUDIES; MOST OF THESE ARE SHORT MONOGRAPHS, BASED ON EXTENSIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS, AND CONSTITUTING SOPHISTICATED CONTRIBUTIONS TO SPECIALIST DEBATE; AND THEY RANGE OVER AN IMPRESSIVE VARIETY OF LOCALES. POLITICAL CLIENTELISM, PATRONAGE AND DEVELOPMENT OPENS WITH THE THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS OF ONE EDITOR (LEMARCHAND) AND TERMINATES WITH THOSE OF THE OTHER (EISENSTADT, WRITING TOGETHER WITH LUIS RONIGER, WHO ALSO PROVIDES A MOST USEFUL BIBLIOGRPHY OF OVER 500 ENTRIES). IN BETWEEN, IT CONTAINS ESSAYS EXPLORING CLIENTELISTIC POLITICS IN ITALY: (BY MARIO CACIAGLI AND FRANK BELLONI, AND BY JUDITH CHUBB); FRANCE (JEAN-FRANCOIS MEDARD); POLAND (JACEK TARKOWSKY); MEXICO (SUSAN KAUFMAN PURCELL); PERU (LAURA GUASTI); AND TURKEY (ERGUN OZBUDUN). THE VOLUME EDITED BY CLAPHAM ALSO OPENS WITH THE EDITOR'S OWN 'THEORETICAL' REFLECTIONS (I USE QUOTATION MARKS BECAUSE ACCORDING TO CLAPHAM HIMSELF THE PHENOMENON OF CLIENTELISM DOES NOT PROPERLY WARRANT A THEORY OF ITS OWN-AS IF THEORIES NECESSARILY HAD TO DEAL DEI MASSIMISISTEMI). THE ESSAYS THAT FOLLOW CONSIDER THE USSR (R. H. BAKER); BRAZIL (PAUL COMMACK); LIBERIA AND SIERRA LEONE (CLAPHAM HIMSELF); SOUTH VIETNAM UNDER DIEM (DENNIS DUNCANSON); THAILAND (JEREMY KEMP); IRELAND (MICHAEL HIGGINS); TROPICAL AFRICA (JEAN-FRANCOIS MEDARD-THE ONLY AUTHOR TO APPEAR IN BOTH COLLECTIONS); AND THE US (MARIE-FRANCE TOINET AND IAN GLENN). THE AUPY: 1983