The relationship between those profiting from these big projects and those in power is such that no one truly costs or controls them In 2010, when a high-speed rail line from London to the north – HS2 ...

Structural analysis of various polities of the world leads many scholars and analysts to consider politics of patronage as the seminal feature of their system(s) of governance. After the Cold War ...

Celebrity professors have been in trouble recently on both sides of the Channel. In France, Luc Ferry, a professor at the Diderot University in Paris and author of many bestselling books of philosophy ...

ADPD-The Green Party on Saturday said that Maltese politics is riddled with clientelism: politics based on handouts, instead of politics based on rights. Unashamedly we have the Prime Minister Robert ...

If clientelism continues to triumph over meritocracy, then we will not be enjoying the fullness of our democracy and the safeguarding of our human dignity, President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca said ...

This article addresses the relationship between institutionalized citizen participation at the municipal level and clientelism. It argues, contrary to what the literature has suggested, that the ...

Yoweri Museveni became a more authoritarian President to successfully manage the structure of political clientelism he had created to ensure he stayed in power. Soon after he became President, his ...

Alfred Sant warns against a “competition of clientelism” within government that is irking the electorate with the former Labour leader pointing his finger at the oversized Cabinet. “I won’t be popular ...

The Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS) and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung organized a conference entitled: "Clientelism as Link between Voters and Political Parties" on December 19, 2014 at the ...

With the elections in the national capital territory done and dusted and the new government was sworn in, it is time to reflect on the role of freebies that played a role in shaping the people’s ...