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 ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Strange relationships between officials and mass organizations have arisen in many regions, including in Bekasi. Ending direct elections for regional heads is not a solution. The ...

ADPD - The Green Party said that stories of clientelism like the driving licence racket are the rot that ruined a country where patronage, clientelism and favouritism trump fairness and good ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ABEOKUTA-Former vice-president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Monday, said President Goodluck Jonathan runs government of ‘clientelism’, and nepotism which only his cronies and family benefit. Atiku also ...

ADPD – The Green Party called out present and past governments for a lack of goodwill to safeguard the environment and said that a culture of clientelism and nepotism has led to a climate emergency.

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 ...

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 ...