Conversations with Ugandans reveal that people at the grassroots see ethnic federalism as one possible way of restoring and guaranteeing both socio-political accountability and economic security in a ...

I think that this clientelism issue is being inflated beyond rational justification. MPs all over the democratic world have clinics where they meet their constituents in order to keep in contact with ...

In democracies, a dangerous trend has emerged where politicians on both sides of the political spectrum manipulate the masses to secure power. Analysts often criticize politicians for failing to ...

Patron-client relations, rule of law weakness, state capture: how different are these concepts, and in which way do they play out across European countries? While state-capture-like developments are ...

Madam, - Róisín Ingle (April 28th), referred to the phenomenon of clientelism in Irish politics. She noted my 1984 article ("Irish Clientelism: a reappraisal", Economic and Social Review), but ...

So, Minister of State Tony Killeen will no longer be lobbying on behalf of prisoners or their families. Nor, presumably, will any of his assistants. Many a TD, or prospective TD, will be pruning back ...

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 ...

Each polity has its own system of governance and administration that it’s largely defined by the electorate. Though various systems of governance; democracy, autocracy, tyrannical, monarchical, are ...

Kelly Stedem, a PhD candidate in the politics department, discusses the current protests in Lebanon and her dissertation, which explores clientelism in the country. Stedem recently coauthored an ...

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 ...

The Nationalist Party expects all of its candidates to remain close to the people and to be sensitive to their needs, “but candidates must abide by the law and work to eliminate the culture of ...

On the afternoon of Thursday, 19 March, four days before Boris Johnson went on TV to tell the British public ‘you must stay at home,’ Lee Cain, his belligerent head of communications, convened a ...