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Political Parties and the Opportunity Costs of Patronage

Carolyn M. Warner

Analyses of patronage and political parties often start from the assumption that patronage is a vote-winning and useful organizational strategy for a political party. This paper questions this assumption and suggests that, for the political party using it, patronage exacts a variety of costs. These undermine the party's existence as an organization with a collective purpose, and even its vote-winning capacities. Examples from a number of different countries and parties illustrate the argument.

Key Words: opportunity costs • patronage • political parties

Party Politics, Vol. 3, No. 4, 533-548 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/1354068897003004005
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