Party Patronage and State Politicisation in The Post- Communist Countries of Central and Eastern Europe: A Game Theory Approach

• Authors: Vitalis Nakrošis , Liutauras Gudžinskas
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article aims at offering a framework for analysing party patronage and state politicisation based on game-theoretic reasoning. It is argued that in order to reveal the main causal mechanisms behind these phenomena, one can focus on the cooperation between political parties analysis based on the model of prisoner’s dilemma. The article identifies four sets of obstacles to party cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe: unstable and polarised party systems; “the rules of the game” legitimising party patronage; dense party networks and their building through patronage; and insufficient regulation and weak enforcement of the merit principle in state administrations. The influence of these causal mechanisms in the post-communist countries can be explored through historical process-tracing and other methods. Finally, the article proposes several country-specific hypotheses for the empirical study of party patronage and state politicisation in Lithuania

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 89-120

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-05-16

Contributors

author

Vitalis Nakrošis

author

Liutauras Gudžinskas

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10110-012-0007-y