Abstract

PALACIOS-LUNA, Juan Manuel de Jesús  and  DEMARCHI-SANCHEZ, Geydi Dahiana. Neither Bosses nor Clients: Accountability in the Weakening of Clientelism. Soc. Econ. [online]. 2022, n.46, e10411099.  Epub May 09, 2022. ISSN 1657-6357.  https://doi.org/10.25100/sye.v0i46.11099.

Accountability is a democratic tool that strengthens the capacities of civil society to participate in public affairs and its relations with the political class. This article aims to explore how democratic accountability affects the association between clientelism and poverty. As a methodology, quantitative research was used by conducting empirical work consisting of statistical analysis for a sample of 160 countries with data from the V-Dem database. Finally, we conclude that the negative association between clientelism and poverty is greater in contexts with better accountability ratings. This conclusion corroborates that accountability as a mechanism of collective action facilitates and strengthens democratic management by civil society and the defense of its interest through institutional channels, which reduces its socio-political vulnerability due to the economic situation in which they live.

Keywords : democracy; accountability; community participation; poverty.

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