We provide a theory of political clientelism, which explains sources and determinants of political clientelism, the … relationship between clientelism and elite capture, and their respective consequences for allocation of public services, welfare … difficult to reconcile with standard models of redistributive politics. -- clientelism ; elite capture ; service delivery …

model, we argue these results provide credible evidence of the presence of clientelism rather than programmatic politics …

Unlike much of the growing literature on political clientelism, this short paper contains mainly the author's general … clientelism has an impact on. It then analyses how its incidence changes with the process of development, and the kind of policy …