The contours of party patronage in Argentina

Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)

SCHERLIS, G.

Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científi cas y Técnicas (CONICET), Univ. Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentine

Description :
This article applies an innovative empirical inquiry to measure the extent of party patronage, as-sessing where, how deeply, and to what extent parties reach into the Argentine federal state struc-tures. While the results by and large confirm the widespread notion of the broad scope of political appointments in Argentina, they refute the conventional hypothesis of a state thoroughly colonized by parties. They also suggest that parties’ distribution of public jobs in the Argentine federal state is oriented less to mass-style patronage than to gaining effective and broad control overstate institutions.

Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Latin American research review, issn : 0023-8791, 2013, vol. 48, n°. 3, p. 63-84, nombre de pages : 22, Références bibliographiques : 3 p.

Date :
2013

Identifiants :
eurl : http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/LARR/prot/fulltext/vol48no3/48-3_63-84_Scherlis.pdf

Editeur :
Pays édition : Etats-Unis, Pittsburgh, PA, Latin American Studies Association

Langue :
Anglais