| Clientelism, Interests, and Democratic Representation: The European Experience in Historical and Comparative Perspective Contributor(s): Piattoni, Simona (Editor), Lange, Peter (Editor), Bates, Robert H. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521800331 ISBN-13: 9780521800334 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Political Science |
| Dewey: 306.209 |
| LCCN: 2001018429 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 9" (1 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book charts the evolution of clientelist practices in several western European countries. Through the historical and comparative analysis of countries as diverse as Sweden and Greece, England and Spain, France and Italy, Iceland and the Netherlands, the authors study both the "supply-side" and the "demand-side" of clientelism. This approach contends that clientelism is a particular mix of particularism and universalism, in which interests are aggregated at the level of the individual and his family "particularism," but in which all interests can potentially find expression and accommodation in "universalism." |