Agents of order? Brokerage and empowerment in development and conflict

What Do Brokers Provide for Urban Slums?

“…In addition to providing insights into urban clientelism from one of the largest, but understudied, countries in the world, the empirical evidence implies that clientelism functions differently in weak‐ or non‐democratic systems where party structures are less developed. Thus, this paper adds to the wide literature on the role of brokers in different environments and how they influence development for different segments of the population (see, for example, Goodhand & Walton, 2023; Diprose, 2023 – for brokers' impact on women's engagement in development; Ehrhardt, 2023 – for brokers' role in empowering minorities and the contradictions they entail;, de jong et al, 2023 for role of brokers in conflicts).…”