Does clientelism perpetuate the weak state capacity that characterizes many young democracies? Prior work explains that … argues that clientelism creates a bureaucratic trap. Governments that rely on clientelism invest in labour-intensive, low … Mexico between 2012 and 2016. During this period, turnover in the party in power in municipalities was frequent, a situation …

This paper seeks to reduce the ambiguity surrounding our understanding of what crony capitalism is, what it is not …, what costs crony capitalism leaves in its wake, and how we might contain it …

about capitalist transformation and the drivers of clientelism embedded within a political settlements approach. We explain … how variations in politics and clientelism stem from variations in the distribution of power across countries and how …