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Spirova, Maria., Scherlis, Gerardo. and Kopecky, Petr. "Party Patronage in New Democracies: Concepts, Measures and the Design of Empirical Inquiry" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-08 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p211424_index.html>

Spirova, M. , Scherlis, G. and Kopecky, P. , 2007-08-30 "Party Patronage in New Democracies: Concepts, Measures and the Design of Empirical Inquiry" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2011-06-08 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p211424_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Rent-seeking by political parties is one of the common challenges of modern democracies. Party patronage can be seen as one of the ways through which parties try to �colonize� the state, or rent-seek within the state (Kopecky 2006; Biezen and Kopecky 2007). Knowing the scale of party patronage gives us an indication of the state politicization and hence of the state autonomy. Understanding practices of party patronage tells us about the nature of party organizations; about how parties organize, how far they are able to reach into the state institutions and how they are using access to state institutions for their own organizational and electoral purposes. Insofar as party patronage is related to different particularistic exchanges like corruption, nepotism, fraud and clientelism, it tell us about the nature of democracy and its legitimacy. In other words, whether one looks at the challenges of state-building or the problems of party organizational emergence and transformation, party patronage appears to be an important area of inquiry. This paper defines and operationalizes the concept of party patronage and presents an innovative empirical inquiry into patronage practices from a comparative perspective. We do not present new data or test specific hypotheses. Rather, we aim to provide an overview of a research design into patronage practices in contemporary new democracies that might also be applicable to the study of patronage in the context of long-established democracies. The first section of the paper reviews some existing concepts of particularistic behavior, disentangles the relationships among them, and situates our concept of patronage within this context. Based on our definition of patronage, we also briefly present and discuss four hypotheses related to patronage practices in contemporary (new) democracies. The second part critiques some of the currently used ways to define and especially to measure patronage. The following part outlines our approach to measuring patronage and presents an example of its applicability in an empirical setting.

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