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Tuesday, July 18th, 2023
Economic disparities and clientelism in Romania. A subnational analysis
This paper analyses the relationship between demand-driven clientelism, economic disparities, and public expenditures at the county level in Romania. Using several economic and social indicators we realize an in-depth analysis of economic development disparities in Romania concerning the clientelistic incidence of the Romanian parties. The latter was based on an...
Tuesday, October 18th, 2022
Strong state, weak society: state capacity, economic development and clientelism in modern Russia
This paper provides a comparative analysis of how highly differentiated regions of Russia perform in terms of economic development, public services delivery and overall quality of governance while linking these factors to levels of political support for the current incumbent during the latest presidential electoral campaign in 2018. It introduces...
Tuesday, October 18th, 2022
Political parties and the state in Romania: between dependence on state resources and its capture
Starting from party literature in the post-communist context, the paper aims to analyze several dimensions of party-state linkage in Romania: 1. the dependence of political parties on public subsidies and impact of regulation; 2. the share of public subsidies in the total budget of political parties by examining their revenues...
Sunday, July 1st, 2012
Clientelism: Electoral Forms and Functions in the Romanian Case Study
ABSTRACT
The ambition of the study is to provide a description of the forms and functions of clientelism, thus looking at the differences between “rural” forms of clientelism that still rely on familiar brokerage, and their implications in terms of the power status of local bosses, and the “urban” forms of...
