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- Title
Patronage Politics and Contentious Collective Action: A Recursive Relationship.
- Authors
Auyero, Javier; Lapegna, Pablo; Poma, Fernanda Page
- Abstract
Based on ethnographic reanalysis and on current qualitative research on poor people's politics, this article argues that routine patronage politics and nonroutine collective action should be examined not as opposite and conflicting political phenomena but as dynamic processes that often establish recursive relationships. Through a series of case studies conducted in contemporary Argentina, this article examines four instances in which patronage and collective action intersect and interact: network breakdown, patron's certification, clandestine support, and reaction to threat. These four scenarios demonstrate that more than two opposing spheres of action or two different forms of sociability, patronage, and contentious politics can be mutually imbricated. Either when it malfunctions or when it thrives, clientelism may lie at the root of collective action.
- Subjects
ARGENTINA; LATIN America; POLITICAL patronage; COLLECTIVE action; SOCIAL conflict; ARGENTINE politics &; government, 1955-; POLITICAL participation; POLITICAL science
- Publication
Latin American Politics & Society, 2009, Vol 51, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
1531-426X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1548-2456.2009.00054.x