Poor People's Politics: Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita
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Poor People's Politics: Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita

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“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 Arge...more
Paperback, 272 pages
Published January 1st 2001 by Duke University Press Books (first published 2000)
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La Política De Los Pobres: Las Prácticas Clientelistas del Peronismo (Paperback)
Poor People's Politics: Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita (ebook)
Poor People's Politics: Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita (Hardcover)

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