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What does clientelism mean?

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Noun
  1. A political system based on personal relations rather than personal merits.
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This mass involvement ensures that the sharing of wealth and social investment is not about clientelism but emancipation.
Internal divisions, conflict, and factionalism tend to reflect the local face of clientelism.
He is currently examining the influence of clientelism on government decision making in democracies.
These are some of the more complex aspects of corruption related to conflict of interest, clientelism, and nepotism.
And you realise very quickly that we don't incentivise people to get involved in our political process because it's all clientelism.
Political clientelism brought public and private interests together and was a central feature in the consolidation of the modern state.

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