When clientelism is in crisis: Brokers of JDP during 2014 and 2019 local elections in Türkiye
Clientelism is an exchange relationship that includes sources of patrons and services of clients. In the political dimension, this relationship’s basic characteristic involves political support from citizens and the redistribution of resources, mostly public resources, by party elites. H...
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| Language: | deu |
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Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade
2025-01-01
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| Series: | Filozofija i Društvo |
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| Online Access: | https://doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0353-5738/2025/0353-57382502461A.pdf |
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| Summary: | Clientelism is an exchange relationship that includes sources of patrons and
services of clients. In the political dimension, this relationship’s basic
characteristic involves political support from citizens and the
redistribution of resources, mostly public resources, by party elites.
Hypothetically, control of public resources is subject to state regulation
within an institutional framework. In some countries, like Türkiye, the
state and government, state elites, and party elites are intertwined. This
structure has its own roots in the peculiarities of Turkish political
history. These peculiarities make clientelistic relations embedded in daily
life. These conditions and peculiarities make brokers, who bridge state
elites and resources with citizens, significant actors in Turkish political
history. In this study, I analyze the effect of brokers in politics at a
local scale by examining their agency during the 2014 and 2019 local
elections in Artvin, a province of Türkiye. The question posed is whether
the efficiency of brokers influences local election outcomes. |
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| ISSN: | 0353-5738 2334-8577 |