Facing bureaucratic uncertainty in the Bolsa Família Program
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2998792 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Flávio Eiró (0000-0002-1291-4569, Radboud University [email protected], corresponding author), Martijn Koster (0000-0003-0003-5345, Radboud University [email protected]) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 2019 |
| Issue | 85 |
| Pages | 84-96 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Focaal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0920-1297 • E-ISSN: 1558-5263 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/fcl.2019.850108 |
| OpenAlex | W2983127622 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 26 |
Clientelism is often analyzed along lines of moral values and reciprocity or an economic rationality. This article, instead, moves beyond this dichotomy and shows how both frameworks coexist and become entwined. Based on ethnographic research in a city in the Brazilian Northeast, it analyzes how the anti-poverty Bolsa Família Program and its bureaucracy are entangled with electoral politics and clientelism. We show how the program's beneficiaries engage in clientelist relationships and exchanges to deal with structural precariousness and bureaucratic uncertainty. Contributing to understanding the complexity of clientelism, our analysis demonstrates how they, in their assessment of and dealing with political candidates, employ the frames of reference of both reciprocity and economic rationality in such a way that they act as a "counterpoint" to each other
Bureaucracy · Clientelism · Counterpoint · Ethnography · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Rationality · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Politics and Society in Latin America · Public Administration
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Gestión
Cuban counterpoint
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City Life from Jakarta to Dakar
Sociologie du clientélisme
Social Policy and Vote in Brazil
The Microfoundations of Political Clientelism
Reelecting Corrupt Incumbents in Exchange for Public Goods
The Logic of Clientelism in Argentina
Accès à l’eau et clientélisme dans le Nordeste brésilien
Le rapport de clientèle
Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy
When Payouts Pay Off
Teoria da reciprocidade e sócio-antropologiado desenvolvimento
The Vicious Cycle in the Bolsa Família Program's Implementation
The Historical Development of Political Clientelism
Sertões e sertanejos
Patronage Politics and Contentious Collective Action
Facing bureaucratic uncertainty in the Bolsa Família Program
Zero Hunger
Mandonismo, Coronelismo, Clientelismo
Mediating and getting 'burnt' in the gap
Praying for Drought
Money Is Good, but a Friend Is Better
From the client's point(s) of view
Clientelism and conceptual stretching
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |