The relationship between those profiting from these big projects and those in power is such that no one truly costs or controls them In 2010, when a high-speed rail line from London to the north – HS2 ...

Structural analysis of various polities of the world leads many scholars and analysts to consider politics of patronage as the seminal feature of their system(s) of governance. After the Cold War ...

Celebrity professors have been in trouble recently on both sides of the Channel. In France, Luc Ferry, a professor at the Diderot University in Paris and author of many bestselling books of philosophy ...

ADPD - The Green Party said that stories of clientelism like the driving licence racket are the rot that ruined a country where patronage, clientelism and favouritism trump fairness and good ...

This article addresses the relationship between institutionalized citizen participation at the municipal level and clientelism. It argues, contrary to what the literature has suggested, that the ...

With the elections in the national capital territory done and dusted and the new government was sworn in, it is time to reflect on the role of freebies that played a role in shaping the people’s ...

Yoweri Museveni became a more authoritarian President to successfully manage the structure of political clientelism he had created to ensure he stayed in power. Soon after he became President, his ...

ADPD – The Green Party Chairperson Carmel Cacopardo insisted that the Police must once and for all stop treating Cabinet members and their entourage as untouchable demi-gods. In a press conference in ...

It is not uncommon for MPs recounting anecdotes from the electoral campaign to speak of the bizarre moments they experience when meeting constituents. From the old lady who offered an MP a glass of ...

ADPD-The Green Party on Saturday said that Maltese politics is riddled with clientelism: politics based on handouts, instead of politics based on rights. Unashamedly we have the Prime Minister Robert ...