More theorizing has been done to explain the nature of a patron-client relationship in politics and resource allocation. But literature that views it as a normative system that competes with the law seems scarce. In the Philippines, some instrumental cultural values such as "palakasan" (patronage), "utang-na-loob" (debt of gratitude), "sakop" (in-group), etc.usually structure this type of exchange. Is it sociologically acceptable to view the patron-client relationship as as a cultural or social normative system that can compete with the legal normative system?
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Informal governance through patron–client relationships and ...
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Open Access funded by Institution for Marine and Island Cultures, Mokpo National University ... We will highlight how patron–client relationships have created a local system of ..... When viewed from the perspective of this informal governance system, the absence of rule of law is positive for the ...
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2. Political Clientelism - Oxford Handbooks
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Ancient Rhetoric and Educational Culture ..... View PDF. Page of. PRINTED FROM OXFORD HANDBOOKS ONLINE (www.oxfordhandbooks.com). ... One defines “patron–client relationships” more generically as a “vertical dyadic alliance .... If there is a norm of political reciprocity in Argentina saying that “gifts” demand a ...
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Thanks a lot Dennis for sharing these papers. They help me sharpen my theorizing on patron-client and clientelism as informal normative systems that compete with the legal normative system. I'm writing a paper using legal pluralist and normative frameworks on why the distribution of post-disaster housing in a Philippine municipality deviated from the official rules of the national and local governments. Data from my research revealed that the local officials, particularly the governor, congressman, and mayor had the discretion to distribute relocation homes to their constituents who supported them during elections through local bureaucrats. I'm looking for authors that directly say that patron-client and clientelism--with their informal-instrumental cultural values that act as effective norms and sideline the law--are normative systems. The idea of patron-client and clientelism as informal governance system is indeed a great help towards this direction. Cheers!
Check this out, my latest peer-reviewed article in a Scopus-indexed journal which showed that an informal governance system used cultural values in a clientelistic distribution of socialized housing. Here is the link:
https://cgscholar.com/bookstore/works/legal-pluralism-cultural-values-and-postdisaster-housing-project?category_id=cgrn&path=cgrn%2F289%2F294