O clientelismo revisitado: uma explicação focada nos mediadores

Abstract

This review analyses the book written Stokes, Dunning, Nazareno and Brusco, Brokers, voters and clientelism: the puzzle of distributive politics. In this work, the authors examine distributive policies and clientelism, based on an extensive review of literature, deploying a combination of various research methods and techniques and mobilizing a diverse set of sources. The authors seek to answer how non-programmatic policies, particularly clientelism, work. Despite some aspects that deserve criticism, to the book is undoubtedly an important contribution to researchers interested in the subject.