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Scherlis Perel, G.E. (2010)

Patronage and party organization in Argentina : the emergence of the patronage-based network party

Doctoral Thesis
This dissertation consists of a study of party patronage in Argentina. It attempts to assess the degree to which parties appoint people to public positions, who is in effect responsible for patronage within parties, what motivates parties to appoint in different sectors and at different levels of the state, and what criteria they follow to select the appointees. Its main argument is that patronage has become the primary resource employed in order to build contemporary party organizations in Argentina. In fact, the research shows that patronage is the indispensable resource to recruit and sustain the two types of networks which make up the only type of party organization that has proved successful in contemporary Argentina, the “patronage-based network party”. For those who do not have access to state resources, the development or the maintenance of an electorally competitive party organization has become improbable. That is the reason why, paraphrasing Schattschneider´s, this...Show moreThis dissertation consists of a study of party patronage in Argentina. It attempts to assess the degree to which parties appoint people to public positions, who is in effect responsible for patronage within parties, what motivates parties to appoint in different sectors and at different levels of the state, and what criteria they follow to select the appointees. Its main argument is that patronage has become the primary resource employed in order to build contemporary party organizations in Argentina. In fact, the research shows that patronage is the indispensable resource to recruit and sustain the two types of networks which make up the only type of party organization that has proved successful in contemporary Argentina, the “patronage-based network party”. For those who do not have access to state resources, the development or the maintenance of an electorally competitive party organization has become improbable. That is the reason why, paraphrasing Schattschneider´s, this dissertation affirms that Argentine party organizations have become unthinkable save in terms of patronage.Show less
Appointments
Argentina
Government
Patronage
Patronage and Party Organization
Peronism
Political Parties
All authors
Scherlis Perel, G.E.
Supervisor
Mair, P.
Co-supervisor
Kopecky, P.
Qualification
Doctor (dr.)
Awarding Institution
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University
Date
2010-01-21

Juridical information

Court
LEI Universiteit Leiden

Funding

Sponsorship
Alban Programme of the European Commission