Clientelism, Interests, and Democratic Representation: The European Experience in Historical and Comparative Perspective (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521800334)

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."

Author: Simona Piattoni
ISBN-10: 0521800331
ISBN-13: 9780521800334
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/10/2001
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.80d