Political Clientelism and Development: A Preliminary Analysis

Globalisation, accounting and developing countries

“…The distinction between private and public spheres formally exists and public reference is made to it, but in practice the distinction is blurred. Rational-legal formal rules define authority and responsibilities and provide legitimacy for seeming bureaucracies but, within them, patronage, clientelism, corruption, nepotism and ethnicity abound (Lemarchand & Legg, 1972;Scott, 1969;Zolberg, 1969). The exercise of power in neo-patrimonial regimes is erratic and incalculable.…”

Government accounting reform in an ex-French African colony: The political economy of neocolonialism

“…Formal rules may define authority and responsibilities and provide legitimacy for these organizations but within them patronage, clientelism, corruption, nepotism, and ethnicity abound (Zolberg, 1969;Lemarchand and Legg, 1972). Powerful position holders (i.e., the President, MPs, chiefs, party officials, government bureaucrats) use informal means of patrimony to personally distribute material resources ('rents' in economic terminology) to further their interests (Kelsall, 2011).…”

Urban Service Delivery System and Federal Government Bureaucracy: A Structural Analysis of Spatial Distribution of Water Supply in a Suburban Community of Metropolitan Lagos

“…Thus, the vassal ewes personal service to his lord, but the lord owes protection to his vassal in time of war; the client-chief owes tribute to his ruler, but the ruler owes him political rights and privileges camnensurate trdth his rank; the peasant and his family provide votes for a politician, and he in turn nrust cater to their material needs (Lemarchand and Legg, 1972).…”

“…Notables and 8 influentials commanding unequal or non-additive resources may in fact relate to each other in a manner not unlike that of patrons and clients, and the analytic structure of clientelism may reappear in the guise of concrete institutional structures that have all the outward appurtenances of a legal-rational universe (Lemarchand and Legg, 1972).…”

“…The element of lopsidedness is the really crucial element in the clientage relationship, as it expresses the differential control of patrons and clients over resources, and the resultant asymmetry of statuses and obligations between them (Lemarchand and Legg, 1972).…”