Quotes About Clientelism

Many believed that the Mafia, clientelism, and corruption represented traditional social practices that would gradually erode as the country modernized economically.

Clientelism is an efficient form of political mobilization in societies with low levels of income and education, and is therefore best understood as an early form of democracy.

On the other hand, countries that democratized early, before they established modern administrations, found themselves developing clientelistic public sectors.

Lo característico de los movimientos populistas es introducir nuevas clientelas al erario público. Por ello terminan con frecuencia en crisis fiscales que se llevan todo lo ganado.

a tendency uncritically to accept the prevailing "order", and to view the evidence of financial corruption and political clientelism as inalterable,

Los años del segundo gobierno de Yrigoyen (1928-30) fueron los peores en este sentido. La maquinaria clientelar mostró una avidez insólita y la "empleomanía" se desbordó: "A mediados de 1929 todos los departamentos de la administración ya se habían convertido virtualmente en agencias de colocación que servían a los fines políticos del gobierno. El