Patron States: The Decline of Clientelism in the United States and Britain

Why do political parties reduce clientelistic strategies and adopt programmatic competition? While nineteenth-century political parties competed using a variety of clientelistic strategies, the period of 1870--1920 in the United States and Britain saw a transition to programmatic politics. This diss...

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Main Author: Kuo, Joanna Dee
Other Authors: Hall, Peter A.
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2013
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11073
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11181202