Clientelism in Everyday Latin American Politics

This book improves understandings of how and why clientelism endures in Latin America and why state policy is often ineffective. Political scientists and sociologists, the contributors employ ethnography, targeted interviews, case studies, within-case and regional comparison, thick descriptions, and process tracing.

'The dynamics of clientelism in Latin America are analyzed from varying qualitative, theoretical perspectives in this book edited by Hilgers Comparative overviews assess the nature and level of clientelism across the region, and various case studies provide micro-level detail - the "everyday" of the title - on clientelism in parts of Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, and Uruguay this volume is useful for political scientists, but perhaps even more so for sociologists and scholars of Latin America Recommended.' - Choice 'The so-called third wave of democracy brought much optimism to developing countries. This interesting book deepens our understanding of how varieties of clientelism informally aid and abet how democracy operates in Latin America. The excellent essays are written by experts in politics in diverse countries in the region.' - Susan Eckstein, Boston University, former president of the Latin American Studies Association

JAVIER AUYERO Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor in Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas, Austin USA and the former editor of Qualitative Sociology EDUARDO CANEL Associate Professor in the Division of Social Science and director of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) at York University, UKJULIÁN DURAZO HERRMANN Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Université de Québec à Montréal, Canada where he also heads the Participatory Democracy and Public Space Revitalization axis of the Nycole Turmel Chair of Public Space and Public InnovationJONATHAN FOX teaches in the Latin American and Latino Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA ROBERT GAY Professor of Sociology and director of the Toor-Cummings Center for International Studies and Liberal Arts (CISLA) at Connecticut College, USATINA HILGERS Assistant Professor of Political Science at Concordia University Montreal, CanadaPABLO LAPEGNA Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute at the University of Georgia, USAFRANÇOISE MONTAMBEAULT assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Université de Montréal, CanadaLUIS RONIGER Reynolds Professor of Latin American Studies at Wake Forest University, USAJON SHEFNER Professor and head of Sociology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA