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A study of patronage politics and the persistence of clientelism across a range of countries.

Japan's national government, and most of its local governments, have been in conservative hands for more than three decades. Recently, however, the strength of

This book charts the evolution of clientelist practices in several western European countries. Through the historical and comparative analysis of countries as d

Examines whether patron-client relations are critical to the electoral victory of candidates; how the political elites cultivate support from clients in order t