Pellicer, Miquel and Wegner, Eva and Bayer, Markus and Tischmeyer, Christian (2020) Clientelism from the Client’s Perspective: A Meta-Analysis of Ethnographic Literature. Perspectives on Politics. pp. 1-17. ISSN 1537-5927

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Abstract

Mainstream political science literature on clientelism tends to focus on its supply side and on vote-buying, whereas ethnographic work often emphasizes client agency and incentives and paints a more diverse image of clientelism. We bridge the gap between these literatures by conducting a meta-analysis of ethnographic literature on clientelism from the client perspective. We code characteristics of clientelistic exchanges described in this work. We use cluster analysis and principal component analysis to systematize these data. Cluster analysis groups exchanges into three core subtypes of clientelism (“vote-buying”, “relational”, and “collective”); principal component analysis delivers two fundamental dimensions of clientelism: equal-unequal and individual-universal. We show that the two dimensions are associated with different aspects of client welfare and trade-offs from the client perspective. Our results reaffirm and reconcile existing deductive typologies of clientelism and can serve as a basis for a structured study of the demand side of clientelism.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Clientelism; Client’s Perspective; Meta-Analysis; Ethnographic Literature;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics, Finance and Accounting
Item ID:	16304
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1017/S153759272000420X
Depositing User:	Miquel Pellicer
Date Deposited:	13 Jul 2022 08:54
Journal or Publication Title:	Perspectives on Politics
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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