TY  - JOUR
TI  - Beyond the Machine: Clientelist Brokers and Interest Organizations in Latin America
AU  - Holland, Alisha C.
AU  - Palmer-Rubin, Brian
PY  - 2015
PB  - SAGE Publications
LA  - eng
AB  - Organizational membership is one of the strongest, yet overlooked, predictors of vote buying across Latin America. We argue that this relationship is driven by the fact that politicians outsource some of their vote-buying efforts to interest associations. In contrast to the existing literature that focuses on party brokers, who are loyal to a single political machine, we introduce the concepts of organizational brokers, who represent interest associations and renegotiate ties to political parties between election cycles, and hybrid brokers, who split their loyalties between an interest association and a single political party. We illustrate the operation of these alternative broker types through case studies of street-vending organizations in an uninstitutionalized party system, Colombia, and peasant organizations in an institutionalized party system, Mexico. Attention to the role of brokers and the organizations that they represent has implications for political accountability, collective action, and the persistence of clientelism.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414015574883
DO  - 10.1177/0010414015574883
T2  - Comparative political studies: CPS
VL  - 48
IS  - 9
SN  - 1552-3829
SN  - 0010-4140
SP  - 1186-1223
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/cr-10.1177/0010414015574883
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -