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 ...

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 ...

The literature on legislative recruitment has existed largely independently of the literature on party clientelism in new democracies. The Romanian data on parliamentary representation can be used to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nepal, Sept. 18 -- After last week's deadly protests, things have started to settle down in Nepal. We now have an Interim Prime Minister in Sushila Karki, and the cabinet is starting to fill up with ...

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 ...

ADPD – The Green Party Chairperson Carmel Cacopardo insisted that the Police must once and for all stop treating Cabinet members and their entourage as untouchable demi-gods. In a press conference in ...

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 ...