The Difficult Transition from Clientelism to Citizenship
Lessons from Mexico
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6411318 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Fox (0000-0002-0422-7275, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 151-184 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8871 • E-ISSN: 1086-3338 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2950671 |
| OpenAlex | W1841166463 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 332 |
| References cited | 48 |
The consolidation of democratic regimes requires the extension of political rights to the entire citizenry, but this process does not necessarily follow from electoral competition. The transition from authoritarian clientelism to respect for associational autonomy is an important dimension of democratization, unfolding unevenly through iterative cycles of conflict among authoritarian rulers, reformist elites, and autonomous social movements. This process is illustrated by a study of changing bargaining relations between rural development agencies and grassroots indigenous movements in Mexico. The results suggest that the transition from clientelism to citizenship involves three distinct patterns of state-society relations within the same nation-state: redoubts of persistent authoritarianism can coexist with both new enclaves of pluralist tolerance and large gray areas of “semiclientelism
Authoritarianism · Citizenship · Clientelism · Democracy · Democratization · Development economics · Economic system · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Politics and Society in Latin America · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
Inside the Political Mind
Partidos tradicionales y terceras fuerzas
Patrons, Clients and Policies
La otra representación
Uneven States, Unequal Societies, and Democracy's Unfulfilled Promises
The Concatenating Relationship between Political Clientelism and Citizen Quiescence in Kenya
Political Topographies of the African State
Making Space for Civil Society
Conditionality & Coercion
Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China
Patronage as Politics in South Asia
The Democracy Development Machine
Finding Ways Out of the Gyratory Circus
Latin American Party Systems
Petro-Aggression
Political Topographies of the African State
The Nationalization of Politics
Free Market Democracy and the Chilean and Mexican Countryside
Contesting Citizenship in Latin America
Do the Poor Count?
Democracy and Development
The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies
Inequality, Democracy, and the Inclusionary Turn in Latin America
Beyond participation
Evaluating Informal Politics in Mexico City
What Do Brokers Provide for Urban Slums
Change in political party strategy and organization in Turkey
The Unintended Effects of Bottom-Up Accountability
Green politics or environmental blues? Analyzing ecological democracy
Making Land Rights Accessible
Governance and rural development in Mexico
Constructing and Controlling People’s Power from the Grass Roots
The Invisibility Bargain
Regulatory Waves
The Zapatista Social Netwar in Mexico
Contention and democracy in Europe, 1650-2000
Contention and Democracy in Europe, 1650–2000
Institutions and Democratic Citizenship
Demanding Development
Democracy in Ghana
The Changing Anti-Poverty Agenda
Decentralisation, Politics and Service Delivery in Mexico
Resisting Neoliberal Homogenization
Privatizing the Countryside
The Politics of Development in Indigenous Panama
The Politics of Popular Coalitions
The Institutional Roots of Popular Mobilization
Dynamics of Political Parties' Administration in Ghana
Trust and Rule
Four Dreams from the Meanwhile of Mexican History
Vote Buying in Argentina
"You Can Buy a Player's Legs, But Not His Heart"
The Political Consequences of Center-Led Redistribution in Brazilian Federalism
“You Can Buy a Player's Legs, But Not His Heart”
The Distributive Politics of Emergency Employment Programs in Argentina (1993-2002)
The Landless Rural Workers Movement and Democracy in Brazil
Deep Politics
The Microfoundations of Political Clientelism
The Mexican State and Transmigrant Organizations
Cocaine and Parallel Polities in the Brazilian Urban Periphery
Reinventing the Communal Tradition
Decentering the Regime
The Logic of Clientelism in Argentina
El ejercicio de la democracia en dos comunidades forestales de la Sierra Norte de Oaxaca, México
Uso político de programas sociales y nuevos intermediarios institucionales
Ni pasividad ni resistencia. Modos competitivos de construcción de ciudadanía desde la dirigencia barrial
Estado, Desarrollo Social, Política Social, Gasto Público y Ciudadanía. La importancia de la confianza en el caso de México
Corruption's Challenge to Democracy
Child Trafficking and Formalisation
In Search of Dialogue? Oil Companies and Indigenous Peoples of the Ecuadorean Amazon
Participación ciudadana e instituciones
Populism in Venezuela
(Nation) building civic epistemologies around nuclear energy in India
Le néolibéralisme, le semi-clientélisme et la théorie politique de l’échelle dans les mesures anti-pauvreté mexicaines1
La relation complexe entre clientélisme et démocratie1
Navalny’s Gamesters
Beyond Coercion
Indigenous social movements and political institutionalization
Political clientelism in Thai provinces
Rethinking political competition
Institutional supply, public demand, and citizen capabilities to participate in environmental programs in Mexico and India
Rhetorical welfare and democratic realities
How Vigilant is the Vibrant Civil Society in Bangladesh? A Survey-based Analysis
A Crooked Path to the Franchise
The Policy Challenges of Civil Society Involvement in Education
Neopatrimonialism in Latin America
Corruption, patronage, and avertable child deaths in developing countries
The Informal Dimension of Judicial Politics
What Can Latin America Tell Us about Subnational Democratic Erosion in the United States
Whose Culture? Globalism, Localism, and the Expansion of Tradition
Identifying clientelism in orphanages
Complexities of the charitable and philanthropic landscape within Mexico’s children’s hospitals
Mexico and social provision by the federal government and the federal district
The diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfer programs in the Americas
Conclusion
Football, clientelism and corruption in Argentina
Redistributive land reform in ‘public’ (forest) lands? Lessons from the Philippines and their implications for land reform theory and practice
Responsibilization and state territorialization
Organisations indiennes et partis de gauche dans la transition mexicaine
The solar energy market and the transformation of patron-client relations in Lebanon
Politics and the migrant poor in Mexico City
Labyrinths of power
Struggle, politics, and reform
Elites and Democratic consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe
Issues in Democratic Consolidation
Friends, followers, and factions
Democracy and the Market
Popular Movements and Political Change in Mexico
Welfare Politics in Mexico
Elections Without Choice
The State and Poverty in India
When Parties Fail
Caciquismo y poder político en el México rural
Mixtec Ethnicity
Camarillas in Mexican Politics
The politics of protecting the poor during adjustment
Public participation and poverty alleviation
Mexico's Difficult Democracy
Structure and Process in Latin America
The History of American Electoral Behavior
Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy
Mexican Politics in Transition
Class, clientelism, and coercion
State and Society in Mexico
Dilemmas of Democratization in Latin America
Military Autonomy and Emerging Democracies in South America
Democracy by Undemocratic Means
Communism and Clientelism
The Degree of Military Political Autonomy during the Spanish, Argentine and Brazilian Transitions
Democratic Rural Development
Inducements versus Constraints
Political Science and the Crisis of Authoritarianism
The Consolidation of Democracy and Representation of Social Groups
The Marriage of Finance and Order
The Apra Government and the Urban Poor
Elections and Democratization in Latin America, 1980-85
Mexican Politics in Transition
Secondary Associations and Democratic Governance
The Patron-Client Concept and Macro-Politics
Patron-Client Relations as a Model of Structuring Social Exchange
| Unique citing works | 332 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 10,38 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2026 (33) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 324 |