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clientelism  

Definition

  • Clientelism involves a particularistic exchange between patrons and clients in which resources of some kind are traded in a mutually beneficial way. Both parties are supposed to benefit from the exchange, but it involves actors of unequal status. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Political Science; Clientelism]

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