Clientelism, capitalism, and democracy : the rise of programmatic politics in the United States and Britain / Didi Kuo, Stanford University.

• Political parties in the United States and Britain used clientelism and patronage to govern throughout the nineteenth century. By the twentieth century, however, parties in both countries shifted to programmatic competition. This book argues that capitalists were critical to this shift. Businesses developed new forms of corporate management and capitalist organization, and found clientelism inimical to economic development. Drawing on extensive archival research in the United States and Britain, this book shows how national business organizations pushed parties to adopt programmatic reforms, including administrative capacities and policy-centered campaigns. Parties then shifted from reliance on clientelism as a governing strategy in elections, policy distribution, and bureaucracy. They built modern party organizations and techniques of interest mediation and accommodation. This book provides a novel theory of capitalist interests against clientelism, and argues for a more rigorous understanding of the relationship between capitalism and political development. 

Ämnesord

Klientelism  (sao)

Politisk planering  (sao)

Företag och politik  (sao)

Patronage, Political  -- United States. (LCSH)

Patronage, Political  -- Great Britain. (LCSH)

Political planning  -- United States. (LCSH)

Political planning  -- Great Britain. (LCSH)

Business and politics  -- United States. (LCSH)

Business and politics  -- Great Britain. (LCSH)

Capitalism  -- Political aspects -- United States. (LCSH)

Capitalism  -- Political aspects -- Great Britain. (LCSH)

Business and politics.  (fast)

Patronage, Political.  (fast)

Political planning.  (fast)

Capitalism  -- Political aspects. (fast)

Kapitalism  -- politiska aspekter (sao)

Patronage, Political  (LCSH)

Business and politics  (LCSH)

Political planning  (LCSH)

Storbritannien  (sao)

Great Britain.  (fast)

United States.  (fast)

Förenta staterna  (sao)

Klassifikation

JK731 (LCC)

306.20941 (DDC)

Oc:oa (kssb/8 (machine generated))