Download or read book Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy written by Diego Abente Brun and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abente Brun and Diamond invited some of the best social scientists in the field to systematically explore how political clientelism works and evolves in the context of modern developing democracies, with particular reference to social policies aimed at reducing poverty. Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy is balanced between a section devoted to understanding clientelism's infamous effects and history in Latin America and a section that draws out implications for other regions, specifically Africa, Southeast Asia, and Eastern and Central Europe.