Party finance and political scandal in Italy, Spain and France

Pujas, Véronique; Rhodes, Martin

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“…He stresses that in Italy, France, Belgium, and Spain and even in Germany and the UK, parties have been involved in funding scandals related to corruption and violation of funding regulations. Similarly, studies have evidently documented the growing increase in corruption through political party funding (Bryan and Baer, 2005;Williams, 2000a, b;Pujas and Rhodes, 2001;Philip, 2001). The diversities of democracies as well as different typologies of parties identified earlier mean that party financing activities differ from one democracy to another and from one types of party to another.…”

Section: Party Funding and Candidate Selection: Understanding The Thementioning

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Clientele democracy: Political party funding and candidate selection in Nigeria*

Kura¹

2014

Afr. J. Pol. Sci. Int. Relat.

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The upsurge of democracy during the third and fourth waves democratic epochs has led to a "proliferation of alternative conceptual forms…involving democracy 'with adjectives'" (Collier and Levitsky, 1997:430). Clientele democracy, though similar with neopatrimonial democracy, is distinguished in both concept and substance. At the heart of the development of different democracy are the nature and character of political parties. The character of political parties in turn is highly influenced by the pattern of party funding, which accordingly determines the system of candidate selection and nomination and the overall organisation of political parties. This paper argues that political parties as conditio sine qua non to modern democracy significantly contribute to the development of "clientele" democracy in Nigeria. This is evident in the nature of political party funding and candidate selection (both for party offices and general elections). In this context, this paper examines the various aspects of political party funding and strategies for candidate selection in Nigeria. The paper contends that the system of party funding and candidates' selection in the country are reconstructing a new form of democracy that can arguably be called "clientele" democracy, in which godfatherism is the defining political technique of political party activities. The godfathers, in addition to serving as major party funders, also fully control their political terrain, through which they control both parties and the electorates. The paper argues that this practice is undermining political party institutionalisation in Nigeria.

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Section: Party Funding and Candidate Selection: Understanding The Thementioning

confidence: 97%

Clientele democracy: Political party funding and candidate selection in Nigeria*

Kura¹

2014

Afr. J. Pol. Sci. Int. Relat.

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“…Clientelism, be it in rural areas or urban centres, persists in democratic era (Fernandes, 2014). Especially, urban modes of clientelism, particularly in the form of 'bureaucratic clientelism' (Lyrintzis, 1987), through distribution of state resources and political favours to party devotees, prevails in the Spanish politics (Hopkin, 2001;Pujas & Rhodes, 1999). Alienated by clientelistic and corrupt networks of system parties and exhausted by economic hardships, many Spaniards have started to challenge the status quo in recent years.…”

Section: Current State Of Clientelism In Greece Spain and Turkeymentioning

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A comparative analysis of clientelism in Greece, Spain, and Turkey: the rural–urban divide

Çınar

2016

Contemporary Politics

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This article examines the evolution of patron-client relationships in Greece, Spain, and Turkey through the prism of the rural-urban divide. It traces which modes of clientelism (rural or urban) are more evident in these countries today, and why. Further, it finds that in rural modes of clientelism, normative bonds of deference and loyalty with a Weberian notion of 'traditional authority' and affective ties between political patrons and clients are more observable whereas urban modes of clientelism usually yield Downsian competition between political machines with more coercive motives. It suggests that these two notions of clientelism are not mutually exclusive but should rather be seen in a continuum. More generally, this article demonstrates the need in the existing literature for more contextualized analyses that take into account differences between socioeconomic and geographical antecedents of rural vs. urban clientelism and their divergent political reflections.

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“…Other widely-explored topics are the impact of scandals on public perceptions of illegality (Dafydd, 2005;Olukoyun, 2004;Pujas, 1998), the impact of scandals on support for institutions and democracy in general (Morris and Clawson, 2007;Maier, 2002), on public trust in government (Memoli, 2011;Damico et al, 2000), on the popularity of individual politicians and government leaders (Martorano and Ulbig, 2008;Boas, 2005;Bowler and Karp, 2004) and so forth.…”

Section: Scandal and Public Opinionmentioning

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Researching corruption scandals in Serbia: New approaches and challenges

Zurnić¹

2014

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Party finance and political scandal in Italy, Spain and France

Cited by 106 publications

References 8 publications

Clientele democracy: Political party funding and candidate selection in Nigeria*

Clientele democracy: Political party funding and candidate selection in Nigeria*

A comparative analysis of clientelism in Greece, Spain, and Turkey: the rural–urban divide

Researching corruption scandals in Serbia: New approaches and challenges

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