Clientelism, Interests, and Democratic Representation: The European Experience in Historical and Comparative Perspective

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Simona Piattoni
Cambridge University Press, Sep 10, 2001 - Political Science - 240 pages
This book charts the evolution of clientelist practices in several western European countries. Through the historical and comparative analysis of countries as diverse as Sweden and Greece, England and Spain, France and Italy, Iceland and the Netherlands, the authors study both the "supply-side" and the "demand-side" of clientelism. This approach contends that clientelism is a particular mix of particularism and universalism, in which interests are aggregated at the level of the individual and his family "particularism," but in which all interests can potentially find expression and accommodation in "universalism."
 

Contents

CLIENTELISM IN HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
1
WHY IS THERE NO CLIENTELISM IN SCANDINAVIA? A COMPARISON OF THE SWEDISH AND GREEK SEQUENCES OF DEVELOPMENT
31
PATRONAGE AND THE REFORM OF THE STATE IN ENGLAND 17001860
54
CLIENTELISM IN THE BUILDING OF STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN SPAIN
77
CONSTRAINTS ON CLIENTELISM THE DUTCH PATH TO MODERN POLITICS 18481917
101
MASS PARTIES AND CLIENTELISM IN FRANCE AND ITALY
122
FROM PATRONAGE TO CLIENTELISM COMPARING THE ITALIAN AND SPANISH EXPERIENCES
152
CLIENTELISM IN A COLD CLIMATE THE CASE OF ICELAND
172
CLIENTELISM INTERESTS AND DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATION
193
Bibliography
213
Index
233
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