Clientelism is characterized by the combination of particularistic targeting and contingency-
based exchange. This method of contingent exchange thrives in both autocracies and …

Democracy for Sale is an on-the-ground account of Indonesian democracy, analyzing its
election campaigns and behind-the-scenes machinations. Edward Aspinall and Ward …

Corruption is a serious threat to prosperity, democracy and human well-being, with mounting
empirical evidence highlighting its detrimental effects on society. Yet defining this threat has …

Governance has become one of the most commonly used concepts in contemporary political
science. It is, however, often used to mean a variety of different things. This book helps to …

Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that
characterize post-communist regimes, this is the most comprehensive work on the subject to …

The goal of this article is to suggest that an extended family of Mediterranean welfare states
exists and that it consists of eight different nations, some of which have been ignored in the …

What kind of economic development curtails clientelistic politics? Most of the literature
addressing this relationship focuses narrowly on vote buying, resulting in theories that …

The 'social licence to operate'(SLO) is an increasingly heard term that was originally coined
to draw the attention of mining companies to stakeholder issues. Drawing on questions and …

Using rainfall, public relief, and election data from India, we examine how governments
respond to adverse shocks and how voters react to these responses. The data show that …

This article focuses on the relationship between political parties and the state. We propose
an analytical framework distinguishing between three different dimensions of the party-state …