caa a22 4500 445822554 CHVBK 20180317145248.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11186-011-9152-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11186-011-9152-6 Hilgers Tina Department of Political Science, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd., H3G 1 M8, West Montreal, Quebec, Canada aut Clientelism and conceptual stretching: differentiating among concepts and among analytical levels [Elektronische Daten] [Tina Hilgers] The concept of clientelism has lost descriptive power. It has become indistinguishable from neighboring concepts and is applied across analytical levels. Using Gerring's (Polity 31:357-393, 1999) characterization of a "good” concept, I establish the core attributes of clientelism, which, in addition to being an interest-maximizing exchange, involves longevity, diffuseness, face-to-face contact, and inequality. Using secondary sources and fieldwork data, I differentiate clientelism from concepts such as vote-buying and corruption and determine its analytical position at the microsociological level. I argue that labeling sociopolitical systems as clientelistic is awkward since, operating at a higher analytical level, they have characteristics beyond microsociological clientelism and they affect the political nature of the clientelism they contain. I conclude that differentiating clientelism by confining it to the microsociological level will aid theory-building. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Clientelism nationallicence Vote-buying nationallicence Political machines nationallicence Neo-patrimonialism nationallicence Concept building nationallicence Theory and Society Springer Netherlands 40/5(2011-09-01), 567-588 0304-2421 40:5<567 2011 40 11186 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-011-9152-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-011-9152-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hilgers Tina Department of Political Science, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd., H3G 1 M8, West Montreal, Quebec, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theory and Society Springer Netherlands 40/5(2011-09-01), 567-588 0304-2421 40:5<567 2011 40 11186 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer