| Clientelism, Interests, and Democratic Representation: The European Experience in Historical and Comparative Perspective Contributor(s): Piattoni, Simona (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1139175343 ISBN-13: 9781139175340 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $213.75 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science |
| Dewey: 306.209 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics |
| 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. |