Political Parties and Electoral Clientelism

Sergiu Gherghina is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics, University of Glasgow, UK.Miroslav Nemčok is Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway.

• Chapter 1: Political parties, state resources and electoral clientelism.- Chapter 2: Clientelism and distributive politics in Australia: comparing partisan pork barrel with contingency-based vote-buying.- Chapter 3: Administrative clientelism and policy reform failure: the Western Canada Integrated Land Management experience 1990–2015.- Chapter 4: Authoritarian clientelism: the case of the president’s ‘creatures’ in Cameroon.- Chapter 5: Coordinating the machine: subnational political context and the effectiveness of machine politics.- Chapter 6: Political parties and clientelism in transition countries: evidence from Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.- Chapter 7: Does clientelism hinder progressive social policy in Latin America?.- Chapter 8: Conclusion