Sovereign Individuals and Organic Networks: Political Cultures in Conflict During the Progressive Era

Buenker, John D.

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“…A culturalist perspective regards the persistence of traditional conceptions of community and reciprocity in the electorate as the basis for political clientelism (e.g. Buenker, 1988). Whereas these theoretical approaches focus either on certain characteristics of the voters or on institutional specifics of democratic government, it is Shefter (1994) who concentrates on the process of democratization itself as a key factor in the existence of political clientelism.…”

Section: Democratization In the Context Of Research On Clientelism Anmentioning

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Political clientelism and democracy

Kusche

2013

Acta Sociologica

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The article proposes a systems-theoretical approach to political clientelism. It places political clientelism in the theoretical framework of a democratic political system characterized by internal differentiation in government and bureaucracy, party politics and a politically relevant public. Against the background of existing research on the link between democracy and political clientelism, it uses Luhmann's concept of power and more specifically his model of the formal and the informal power cycle to point out parallels and differences between a political system based on expectations with regard to policies and a political system in which clientelistic expectations prevail. Democratic political systems are based on formal, legally codified power and informal power. Clientelistic power is a special form of informal power affecting this interplay, as the example of democratization in Mexico shows. Political systems with clientelistic expectations differ from those with a policy orientation with regard to the complexity of policies, the generalization of political support, the bases for personalization, the pattern of interest articulation and the most prominent external influences on the system.

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Section: Democratization In the Context Of Research On Clientelism Anmentioning

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Political clientelism and democracy

Kusche

2013

Acta Sociologica

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“…In their eyes, such behaviour was fundamentally trangressive: it was ''political corruption,'' the very antithesis of proper liberal democratic governance. The administrators had come into political maturity in the 1890s at home, a time when their colleagues were fighting urban bosses, political machines, and the threat to liberal democracy which it all seemed to represent (Buenker 1988). And having carried that ideological baggage with them to the Philippines, they took the Filipinos' corruption to be an expression of how Filipinos ''have but a faint conception of what real civil liberty is and the mutual self-restraint which is involved in its maintenance'' (USDW 1901: I, 20; my emphasis).…”

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Colonial Reception and Cultural Reproduction: Filipino Elites and United States Tutelary Rule

1999

J Historical Sociology

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This essay opens up the problematic of state intention versus local reception through an analysis of United States colonial rule in the Philippines. Specifically, I examine how the Filipino political elite received the project of democratic tutelage, c. 1899-1910s. I argue that the Filipino elite received the Americans' project through a particular tactic, one which is analytically irreducible to ''resistance.'' By this tactic, which I call ''domestication,'' the elite refashioned the Americans' imposed discourses and institutions in accordance with their preexisting political culture. The elites thereby reproduced the very cultural field which the Americans tried to uproot, effectively thwarting the project from the outset.

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Klientelistische Strukturen und Ausdifferenzierung von Politik

Kusche

2011

Korruption Als Ordnung Zweiter Art

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Sovereign Individuals and Organic Networks: Political Cultures in Conflict During the Progressive Era

Cited by 33 publications

References 13 publications

Political clientelism and democracy

Political clientelism and democracy

Colonial Reception and Cultural Reproduction: Filipino Elites and United States Tutelary Rule

Klientelistische Strukturen und Ausdifferenzierung von Politik

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