In many young democracies, local politics remain a bastion of nondemocratic practices, from corruption to clientelism to abuse of power. Focusing on the practic

Amengual investigates how labor and environmental regulations can be enforced by drawing on a study of politics in Argentina.

Clientelism is a prominent feature of many of the world’s democracies and electoral authoritarian regimes. Yet the comparative study of this practice, which i

Since the Third Wave of democratization research on clientelism has experienced a revival. The puzzling persistence of clientelism in new and old democracies in

Describes what patronage employees do in exchange for their jobs and provides a novel explanation of why they do it.