The key driver behind this manipulation is clientelism, a system where politicians rely on a select group of influential individuals—business magnates, tech giants, and media owners—for ...

To explain its resilience, this book shifts attention to the demand side of exchanges. Nichter contends that citizens play a crucial but underappreciated role in the survival of relational clientelism ...

My research interests lie in urban and grassroots informal politics and my projects focus on clientelism, violence, and forms of resistance and resilience in marginalized communities in Latin America ...

"This is not an isolated case, it is another link in a chain of the theft of public funds, abuse of power, secrecy, clientelism, and protecting wrongdoing - a chain that has been ongoing for 11 ...