Documentos CIDOB América Latina; 13
Despite the supposed negative effect that it has on the quality of political systems in the Third World, patronage is not a phenomenon foreign to the political process in developed countries. Understood as a topic open to empirical corroboration, in this study patronage is analysed from the perspective of political patronage, which is the systemic manifestation that is most obvious and most subject to comparative analysis. With this purpose, the author introduces an indicator of patronage which is fundamentally associated with the distribution of and variation in the levels of employment in the ministerial public sector. By way of illustration, he offers an application of the resulting analytical framework in Latin America.
Jorge Gordin is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Barcelona Institute for International Studies (IBEI).
ISSN: 1697-7688 (print edition)
ISSN: 1697-8137 (online edition)
29 pp.
Jorge Gordin
Date of publication: 07/2006