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Poor People’s Politics

Hardcover • 2001 • English

Poor People’s Politics

By Javier Auyero

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About the book

"Political clientelism" is a term used to characterize the contemporary relationships between political elites and the poor in Latin America in which goods and services are traded for political favors. Javier Auyero critically deploys the notion in Poor People's Politics to analyze the political practices of the Peronist Party among shantytown dwellers in contemporary Argentina. Looking closely at the slum-dwellers' informal problem-solving networks, which are necessary for material survival, a...Show more

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9780822326212

Published year

2001

Language

English

Original title

Poor People’s Politics

Format

Hardcover

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