This thesis is the result of a comparative study utilizing qualitative evidence regarding the democratization process and history in Ghana and Nigeria. As a whole, this thesis seeks to exemplify some of the potential outcomes of democratization since independence in sub-Saharan African states. I analyze the strength and condition of democracy and the democratization process through the electoral histories of Ghana and Nigeria. In my argument, neopatrimonialism encapsulates corruption via patronage, clientelism, and godfatherism. These three theories are the primary areas of concern within this study regarding neopatrimonialism. I assert that democracy is measured in this region as a reflection of the quality of free and fair elections, a key (but not sole) determinant of democratization. The quality or maturation of democracy is measured through the degree to which neopatrimonialism has impacted the integrity of the electoral process. Thus, instances elite clientelism through predatory prebendalism and violent corruption by political elite represent a very troubled democracy under which power structures serve the personal interests of the political elite. Comparatively, evidence of a more distributive form of neopatrimonialism indicates a stronger democratic regime, and is indicated by mass clientelism in the electoral systems of the state.

Notre thèse analyse la construction du consentement à l’action publique néolibérale de transformation urbaine dans un milieu populaire initialement réfractaire. Nous examinons cette question à Sahintepe, quartier précaire d’Istanbul, de 2009 à 2014 –période encadrée par deux élections municipales. L’étude montre que le consentement à l’action publique passe avant tout par l’appropriation des idées et des gestes du néolibéralisme dans la vie quotidienne, et que cette appropriation, dans le cas étudié, fait suite à une entreprise de pédagogie politique menée par le parti dominant, en collaboration étroite avec la municipalité d’arrondissement. Pour mener à bien cette entreprise pédagogique, nous trouvons que quatre éléments sont nécessaires au parti : une vision claire de l’avenir proposée et un projet pour l’atteindre ; une structure interne apte à communiquer cette vision ainsi que ce projet de manière disciplinée et cohérente ; l’ancrage politique et social du parti et de ses militants à travers les réseaux informels ; l’utilisation systématique des ressources publiques comme privées faisant du parti le patron prédominant dans un système de clientélisme institutionnalisé. Complétant les données empiriques tirées d’observations de terrain et d’entretiens par l’analyse des résultats électoraux, l’étude affirme que l’action publique néolibérale doit trouver une symbiose avec le clientélisme pour jouer le rôle voulu dans ce milieu. Les effets de la pédagogie se mesurent par la progression électorale du parti dominant, mais aussi par le remplacement, parmi les habitants du quartier, d’une politique de confrontation par une politique recherchant avant tout la compensation. / This thesis analyzes the construction of consent for a neoliberal policy of urban transformation among an initially reticent low-income population. We examine this question in Sahintepe, a slum neighborhood of Istanbul between 2009 and 2014. Our study shows that consent for public action is built above all through the appropriation by residents of the discourse and actions of neo-liberalism in daily life, and that this appropriation is itself the result of the political pedagogy of the dominant party in close collaboration with the district municipality. To carry out this strategy of pedagogy, we include that four elements are necessary to the party: a clear vision of a desired future and a project to bring it about; an internal structure suited to communicating the project in a disciplined and coherent way; political anchoring of the party and its workers in the informal networks of local society; the systematic use of both public and private resources in such a way as to make the party itself the predominant patron in a system of institutionalized clientelism. Using primary data from interviews and observations and the analysis of electoral results, the study concludes that neo-liberal policies must reach a symbiosis with clientelism in order to play their desired role in this social setting. The effects of this pedagogy can be assessed not only through the electoral progression of the ruling party but also through the gradual replacement on the part of neighborhood residents of confrontational tactics by demands for compensation.

本文之主旨在於探討宜蘭派系政治的運作。研究的時間範圍則從一九四九年國民黨政府遷台以後至一九九二年立委選舉為止。本文在內容的安排上分為六章。除第一章緒論外，第二章為研究個案簡介，對宜蘭縣的自然環境社會經濟結構以及派系之政治參與作初步之介紹。第三章將探討派系政治的形成背景與發展過程，首先探討國民黨政權在 派系政治中的角色，分析選舉制度與派系政治的關係，並分析宜蘭縣早期的派系政治發展史。第四章則分析轉型後的派系政治。第五章將討論派系的組織結構及動員基礎，分別剖析國民黨與民進黨派系的組織結構以及動員基礎。第六章結論，除基於上述探討派系對地方政治的影響外，並評估宜蘭縣派系政治未來之研究方向。

Taking into account historical as well as sociological differences, the author distinguishes between different modes of socialism. On the periphery of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the combination of modern and traditional elements led to the establishment of hybrid political forms. They could be characterized as bureaucratic-patrimonial and associated with a specific type of state: the "peripheral socialist state".

Taking into account historical as well as sociological differences, the author distinguishes between different modes of socialism. On the periphery of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the combination of modern and traditional elements led to the establishment of hybrid political forms. They could be characterized as bureaucratic-patrimonial and associated with a specific type of state: the „peripheral socialist state“.

Within a loose framework of two ongoing and interrelated processes (globalisation and changing roles of the nation-state) family and relations between family, economy and state are studied in Greece and Sweden. Greece is in focus. Modernization, development and family in social science literature are discussed. Using the idea of the social landscape and the existence of four different types of organizations (private enterprises, nation-states, families and voluntary organizations) several advantages are achieved: care work is made visible and nation-states are seen in a wider context. Informal economy and clientelism in general and in Greece in particular are described. The role of family in maintaining such patterns is discussed and attention is paid to the mutual strengthening of family, informal economy and clientelism in a social landscape where formal, universalistic and public procedures to get access to valued resources exist side by side and interwoven with informal, particularistic and veiled ones. Traditional patriarchal ideologies are breaking up and an increasing number of women work outside the family but women's role in caring for family members in Greece is crucial. Great progress in terms of equal rights has been made. State involvement in caring activities and other reproductive work is however small. Modernization and rationalization in economy and state in the wake of EU and EMU membership challenge such phenomena as informal economy, clientelism and women's subordination. Finally development in Greece and Sweden within the EU is discussed and division of responsibilities and work with care is problematized.

Title of Thesis¡GThe Effect of Taiwan Local Factions on Local Election¡XA Case Study on Fongsan City in Kaohsiung County Department¡GIn-service Master Program, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies for Social Sciences, National Sun Yat-Sen University Professor¡GDr. Chang, Tao-Yi Graduate Student¡GWu, Chu-Hui Key words¡Glocal factions, election, change of ruling parties, political domain, patronage-clientelism, multiple-party trend Election is a symbol of universal value of democratization. The birth of local factions in Taiwan is closely related to election. Ever since the move to Taiwan, the government of National Party (Kuomintang), with the intention to solidify its political power, took the united and monopolized economic interests in different districts as the conditions to exchange for local powers or the devotion of political loyalty from the leaders of different ideas. For a long time these people with actual local power have been training a lot of ¡§pile legs¡¨ and loyal supporters. With the help of them, a gigantic social relationship network is established. After that, through elections, they enter the local governments of different townships in various counties and cities, or step on the stage of the parliament, thus forming influential political power. The basic function of local factions is exerted on election. In the process of election, local factions play a pushing role in the political participation, and monopolize the local political and social resources. Nevertheless, after local factions have gone through the change of ruling parties and the rearrangement of political domains in the year 2000, whether the patronage-clientelism has any subtle changes subsequently caused is worthy of making in-depth observation. Kaohsiung County is a place of origin for democratization of Taiwan, and Fongshan City is a major township with political and economic influences in Kaohsiung County. With the change of ruling parties and under the impacts of financial reforms, the thesis mainly investigates the past and current situations of local factions in Fongshan City, and expects to further clarify whether factions will develop towards the multiple-party trend.

The microfinance revolution of the 1980s acclaimed micro-credit as a tool that would improve the lives of economically active people trapped in poverty. The 2006 Nobel prize awarded to Mohammed Yunus and Grameen Bank confirmed for the industry’s advocates that microfinance was a panacea, and billions of dollars have been channeled to financial services for the poor. However, a series of high-profile scandals in 2010 shook development agencies’ faith in micro lending, and support has waned in light of evidence that microfinance alone cannot change structural inequalities and end poverty. I show that politics operate throughout the industry, reproducing inequalities within the process of micro lending. In my political ethnographic study of 460 people in three countries, I find that race and class politics is entrenched in all three countries, yet there are different outcomes related to attitudes of microfinance managers. In Jamaica and Guyana, micro lenders demonstrate that historically rooted racial and class biases go beyond gender to determine the allocation of micro loan resources. Ingrained biases interfere with the allocation of loans to the urban poor because discriminatory practices reinforce pre-existing social divisions. The Haiti case is hopeful: lenders, particularly the caisses populaires (credit unions), are made up of socially conscious people who recognize the country’s exclusionary politics. Managers and staff have class origins similar to the clients they serve and view micro loans as a tool to contest class and race-based oppressions. Haiti’s case suggests that collective systems such as those found in the caisses populaires and informal banks are effective because they relate to people’s history; and managers influenced by the masses, organize financial programs that are responsive to their clients and remain free from elite capture. This bottom-up approach in microfinance determines a greater level of social transformation for the urban poor.

What explains the resilience of formerly nationally dominant parties at the subnational level? This dissertation demonstrates that factionalism is key. When intra-party factions are united, subnational dominant parties retain power even under adverse electoral conditions. By contrast, divisions and conflicts among internal groups lead these parties to lose even in favorable electoral contexts. I test these claims using a variety of quantitative and qualitative evidence from Mexico, focusing on the electoral performance of the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) in contemporary gubernatorial elections. Democratization potentially undermines unity in dominant parties because it provides politicians with viable exit options (i.e., joining the opposition) and because authoritarian central party committees no longer control subnational politics. Yet, I argue that factions can cooperate under democracy when they were more autonomous from the center during the authoritarian period. The negotiation skills acquired in the past help them "get along" in the absence of an external enforcer. By contrast, previously subordinated factions never acquired such skills and quickly became antagonistic to each other under democracy. As I show, collaboration had positive electoral consequences in subnational elections whereas antagonism had pernicious ones. / text

This thesis reviews the system of governance of professional baseball in Taiwan, which has developed since its inception in 1990. The analysis undertaken reviews three case studies of major events in the baseball world in Taiwan to provide an insight into the principal interests and forces in the governance system. In theoretical terms the study employs and evaluates classical theories of the state, strategic relations theory and governance theory to describe, evaluate and explain the processes evident in the three cases. The study concludes that the governance system is characterised by a tension between mechanisms of 'modem' liberal politics, and 'traditional' forms of political clientelism.