Corruptive Patterns of Patronage in South East Europe

• Main Author: Georgiev, Plamen K. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2009.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Political science.; International relations.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Political Science.; International Relations.

The transformation of Eastern Europe has challenged the characteristics of patron-client relations both in their context and meaning. The former patrimonial frameworks and patterns have worn out while global power and increasing disparities overwhelm traditional systems of patronage. Plamen K. Georg...

Table of Contents:

• Changing Paradigms of Patronage (A South Eastern European Outlook)
• Rethinking Patronages (Towards the Phenomenology of Patron Client Relations)
• Discovering Balkan Patronages
• Rationalizing Corruption
• Corruptive Patterns of Patronage
• Competitive Global Patronages
• Conclusion: Quasi-Democracies as Fields of Corruption.