examining Philippine governance and the roles of policymakers and voters more deterministically. Patronage and political … shown that certain activities used to perpetuate patronage and dynasties (also called family networks) such as coercion …

suggest that while civil service reforms might weaken the bureaucratic clientelism, the pre-existing patronclient relations …

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 … clientelism-induced negative equilibria, this article offers a more direct path from clientelism to state capacity. The results …

West Bengal, India. Using household panel survey data spanning 1998-2008, we examine the consequences of clientelism for …

There are sound theoretical reasons to expect clientelism to suppress economic growth: politicians who garner support … constraint is met with low wages. Hence, clientelism can become a poverty trap. Yet in many countries, the heyday of political … clientelism coincided with periods of rapid economic growth. I offer preliminary evidence of this coincidence of clientelism and …