The Politics of Privilege: Assessing the Impact of Rents, Corruption, and Clientelism on Third World Development

Hutchcroft, Paul D.

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“…The problem with the Chabal and Daloz's analysis, for example, is that what they refer to as a specifically African problem is actually a general characteristic of all developing countries undergoing processes of primitive accumulation and associated political corruption (Hutchcroft, 1997;Khan, 2007). The institutionalisation of order (stable property rights, entrenched democracy, low corruption, accountability of leaders) requires a significant level of development in order to be effectively implemented (Khan, 2007).…”

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The Concept, Causes and Consequences of Failed States: A Critical Review of the Literature and Agenda for Research with Specific Reference to Sub-Saharan Africa

John

2009

Eur J Dev Res

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This article provides a critical review of recent literature that has attempted to define what a 'failed state' is and explains why such states emerge. It is argued that aggregate indices of 'failure' are misleading due to the wide variations of capacity across state functions within a polity. The focus on ranking states also distracts attention away from analyses concerning the dynamics of state capacity. Moreover, many of the definitions either compare reality to a Weberian ideal, or assume that violence is 'development in reverse', both of which are ahistorical and unhelpful as a guide to policy. The second part of the article assesses the contributions of functionalist, 'new war' and neo-Tillean approaches to explain state failure. The article finds that while these theories take concrete historical situations seriously, they have important theoretical and empirical shortcomings. Finally, the conclusion outlines an agenda for further research.Cet article offre un examen critique de la litte´rature re´cente cherchant a`de´finir ce qu'est un É tat de´faillant, ainsi que les raisons donnant lieu a`leur e´mergence. Il conside`re que les indicateurs agre´ge´s permettant d'e´tablir qu'un É tat est de´faillant sont tous trompeurs en raison de la grande variation qui peut exister au sein d'un meˆme É tat quant a`sa capacite´a`assurer ses diffe´rentes fonctions. Il est souligne´que les classements de´tournent l'attention des analyses portant sur la dynamique variable de la capacite´des É tats. Plusieurs approchent comparent, de plus, la re´alite´avec un ide´al weberien, ou bien supposent que la violence est une forme de de´veloppement ) a`l'envers *, ce qui constitue une pre´supposition anhistorique et inutile du point de vue de l'aide a`la de´cision. La deuxie`me partie de l'article se penche en particulier sur les contributions fonctionnalistes, du paradigme des ) nouvelles guerres *, ainsi que des approches base´es sur les the´ories de Charles Tilly. Bien que prenant en compte les re´alite´s historiques, ces diffe´rentes approches ont toutes des points faibles, tant the´oriques qu'empiriques, et la conclusion de l'article se base sur ces derniers afin d'e´laborer un agenda de recherche futur a`propos des É tats de´faillants.

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Section: Problems With 'Functionalist' and 'New Wars' Theoriesmentioning

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The Concept, Causes and Consequences of Failed States: A Critical Review of the Literature and Agenda for Research with Specific Reference to Sub-Saharan Africa

John

2009

Eur J Dev Res

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“…What matters are the outcomes, and those are varied (Hutchcroft 1997). It is probably easier to see the harm caused by clientelistic politics and patrimonial administration than it is to observe their positive features, but the fact remains that no governance system could operate effectively without some degree of institutional dualism, some balance among "bad" informal practices and "good" formal ones.…”

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Making Sense of Corruption

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“…Rigging elections and using public money to finance an incumbent's campaign are examples of corruption, but do not involve reciprocity between two parties. Also, corruption, being "the violation of norms based on a distinction between what is public and what is private" (Hutchcroft 1997), clearly involves public office or public resources, which is not always the case for exchange-based political relationships. Finally, several seminal works on corruption highlight the importance of attitudes in identifying what is or is not corrupt.…”

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Clientelism and conceptual stretching: differentiating among concepts and among analytical levels

Hilgers

2011

Theor Soc

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The concept of clientelism has lost descriptive power. It has become indistinguishable from neighboring concepts and is applied across analytical levels. Using Gerring's (Polity 31:357-393, 1999) characterization of a "good" concept, I establish the core attributes of clientelism, which, in addition to being an interestmaximizing exchange, involves longevity, diffuseness, face-to-face contact, and inequality. Using secondary sources and fieldwork data, I differentiate clientelism from concepts such as vote-buying and corruption and determine its analytical position at the microsociological level. I argue that labeling sociopolitical systems as clientelistic is awkward since, operating at a higher analytical level, they have characteristics beyond microsociological clientelism and they affect the political nature of the clientelism they contain. I conclude that differentiating clientelism by confining it to the microsociological level will aid theory-building.

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The Politics of Privilege: Assessing the Impact of Rents, Corruption, and Clientelism on Third World Development

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The Concept, Causes and Consequences of Failed States: A Critical Review of the Literature and Agenda for Research with Specific Reference to Sub-Saharan Africa

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