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Patronage as Insurance: Clientelism, Precarity, and Political Engagement in Uganda
Patronage as Insurance: Clientelism, Precarity, and Political Engagement in Uganda
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202105234
- ISBN
- 9798291567609
- DDC
- 320
- 서명/저자
- Patronage as Insurance: Clientelism, Precarity, and Political Engagement in Uganda
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of Michigan, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 241 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-03, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Min, Brian;Pitcher, Anne.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Poverty is both deprivation---resource deficiency---and precarity---exposure to periodic acute need. In much of the political science literature on the politics of low-income countries, deprivation is the component of poverty most incorporated into theoretical and empirical approaches. The distinct dimension of precarity has been relatively neglected in the study of poverty and political behavior, which, I argue, has limited our understanding of the political lives of the poor. In addition to reviewing the broader literature on politics and poverty, I formally review a set of papers on clientelism. I find that while some papers reference ideas related to precarity in their theoretical approaches, none of these papers incorporate precarity into their empirical sections. Conversely, some papers use measures that reflect precarity rather than deprivation, but none of these papers discuss precarity in their theoretical sections. I then develop a theoretical model that prioritizes the influence of precarity on the political dynamics in low-income countries. I argue that while we should expect deprivation to dampen most types of political engagement, precarity can act as a catalyst of political engagement. I suggest that periodic acute need increases the value of seeking out assistance from officials as among people's coping strategies and increases the urgency of expressing dissatisfaction. In addition to the political impact of realized precarity, memory of past hardship and expectations about future downturns increase engagement in relational clientelism and to view patronage as a form of insurance. Voting and other signals of loyalty act as a sort of premium payment that produce an increased likelihood of receiving assistance in times of hardship. In turn, parties can leverage precarity to maintain their power by targeting those in acute need to secure loyalty through iterative exchanges that exploit acute need and set expectations about government assistance. I test the political dynamics of poverty using data from Uganda, a suitable setting given high levels of poverty and mature patronage networks developed across the decades of single-party rule. Using a range of deprivation and precarity intra-household measures across a decade of observations from the Uganda Household Panel Survey, I observe that components of poverty are empirically distinct and represent two salient dimensions of the economic experiences of the poor. Building on this understanding that deprivation and precarity are empirically distinct elements of poverty, use the Uganda Round 6 Afrobarometer data to first construct measures of deprivation and precarity, then test the hypothesis that these two dimensions have distinct effects on political engagement. Across several indices of different facets of political behavior, I find that while deprivation is associated with a decrease in political engagement, precarity is significantly positively associated with increases in engagement. Lastly, I analyze the supply-side strategies of distributive politics in Uganda and consider how the state's understanding of the salience of precarity might influence the targeting of improved water sources to supporters. With data on the spatial and temporal provision of water access points in Uganda and polling station-level election results, I observe a political logic for narrowly-targeted water sources, suggestive evidence of the impact of precarity on distributive decision-making. I advance the study of poverty and politics by providing a novel theory and empirical evidence that clarifies the distinct impact of deprivation and precarity on the economic and political lives of the poor.
- 일반주제명
- Political science
- 일반주제명
- African studies
- 키워드
- Poverty
- 키워드
- Clientelism
- 키워드
- Deprivation
- 키워드
- Precarity
- 키워드
- African politics
- 기타저자
- University of Michigan Political Science
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-03A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■5021 ▼aThesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2025.
■520 ▼aPoverty is both deprivation---resource deficiency---and precarity---exposure to periodic acute need. In much of the political science literature on the politics of low-income countries, deprivation is the component of poverty most incorporated into theoretical and empirical approaches. The distinct dimension of precarity has been relatively neglected in the study of poverty and political behavior, which, I argue, has limited our understanding of the political lives of the poor. In addition to reviewing the broader literature on politics and poverty, I formally review a set of papers on clientelism. I find that while some papers reference ideas related to precarity in their theoretical approaches, none of these papers incorporate precarity into their empirical sections. Conversely, some papers use measures that reflect precarity rather than deprivation, but none of these papers discuss precarity in their theoretical sections. I then develop a theoretical model that prioritizes the influence of precarity on the political dynamics in low-income countries. I argue that while we should expect deprivation to dampen most types of political engagement, precarity can act as a catalyst of political engagement. I suggest that periodic acute need increases the value of seeking out assistance from officials as among people's coping strategies and increases the urgency of expressing dissatisfaction. In addition to the political impact of realized precarity, memory of past hardship and expectations about future downturns increase engagement in relational clientelism and to view patronage as a form of insurance. Voting and other signals of loyalty act as a sort of premium payment that produce an increased likelihood of receiving assistance in times of hardship. In turn, parties can leverage precarity to maintain their power by targeting those in acute need to secure loyalty through iterative exchanges that exploit acute need and set expectations about government assistance. I test the political dynamics of poverty using data from Uganda, a suitable setting given high levels of poverty and mature patronage networks developed across the decades of single-party rule. Using a range of deprivation and precarity intra-household measures across a decade of observations from the Uganda Household Panel Survey, I observe that components of poverty are empirically distinct and represent two salient dimensions of the economic experiences of the poor. Building on this understanding that deprivation and precarity are empirically distinct elements of poverty, use the Uganda Round 6 Afrobarometer data to first construct measures of deprivation and precarity, then test the hypothesis that these two dimensions have distinct effects on political engagement. Across several indices of different facets of political behavior, I find that while deprivation is associated with a decrease in political engagement, precarity is significantly positively associated with increases in engagement. Lastly, I analyze the supply-side strategies of distributive politics in Uganda and consider how the state's understanding of the salience of precarity might influence the targeting of improved water sources to supporters. With data on the spatial and temporal provision of water access points in Uganda and polling station-level election results, I observe a political logic for narrowly-targeted water sources, suggestive evidence of the impact of precarity on distributive decision-making. I advance the study of poverty and politics by providing a novel theory and empirical evidence that clarifies the distinct impact of deprivation and precarity on the economic and political lives of the poor.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0127.
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■653 ▼aPrecarity
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■792 ▼a2025
■793 ▼aEnglish
■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17359908▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
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