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ISBN10: 0199599378, ISBN13: 9780199599370, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. Party Patronage and Party Government in European Democracies brings together insights from the worlds of party politics and public administration in order to analyze the role of political parties in public appointments across contemporary Europe. Based on an extensive new data gathered through expert interviews in fifteen European countries, this book offers the first systematic comparative assessment of the scale of party patronage and its role insustaining modern party governments. Among the key findings are: First, patronage appointments tend to be increasingly dominated by the party in public office rather than being used or controlled by the partyorganization outside parliament. Second, rather than using appointments as rewards, as used to be the case in more clientelistic systems in the past, parties are now more likely to emphasize appointments that can help them to manage the infrastructure of government and the state. In this way patronage becomes an organizational rather than an electoral resource. Third, patronage appointments are increasingly sourced from channels outside of the party, thus helping to make parties lookincreasingly like network organizations, primarily constituted by their leaders and their personal and political hinterlands.Comparative Politics is a series for students, teachers, andresearchers of political science that deals with ...
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