POLI 474 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Leviathan, Clientelism, Social Democracy
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Their success would weaken particularistic elite sectors, strengthen poor categories who could provide countervailing power, and extend the state"s penetration of society. It skews the influence of differential social strata by making their main power capabilities more or less useful. Elites have privileged links that allow them to bring their power capabilities and block equity enhancing initiatives that would impose costs on them: 2. Low organization scope in society and the state favors the opponents of redistribution over its initiators, regardless of constellation of class forces. In a fragmented polity, democratization brings about a dispersal of power. Thee levels of organization scope: the state vies for control both with organized groups and personal networks, personalism- individual or small primary groups such as families. Work by norms of reciprocity among specific people: segmentalism- narrowly defined, social categories, especially of an economic functional nature, or relatively autonomous agencies of the state.