TY - JOUR
AU - Hutchcroft, Paul D.
AB - Political Studies (1997), XLV, 639±658 The Politics of Privilege: Assessing the Impact of Rents, Corruption, and Clientelism on Third World Development PAUL D. HUTCHCROFT `I am me,' explains Singaporean Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew in response to criticism that he derived substantial personal advantage from a recent deal involving luxury condominiums. `It's not a level playing ®eld.' To be sure, some element of particularistic privilege is found in all political systems ± most clearly in those where corruption and rent havens predominate, but even in meritocracies such as that built up by Lee himself during his three decades as Prime Minister. While no `playing ®eld' is entirely level, however, it is equally obvious that landscapes of special advantage vary enormously in shape from one political economy to another: some varieties of unevenness may actually promote economic growth, while other types of rough terrain seem to pose enormous barriers to sustained development. This paper takes initial steps toward building a framework able to explain why a range of related phenomena ± variously described as rent-seeking, corruption, and clientelism ± may be relatively more compatible or relatively more obstructive to the process of Third World development. In doing so, I will 
TI - The Politics of Privilege: Assessing the Impact of Rents, Corruption, and Clientelism on Third World Development
JF - Political Science
DO - 10.1111/1467-9248.00100
DA - 1997-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/the-politics-of-privilege-assessing-the-impact-of-rents-corruption-and-N0VB46a4fe
SP - 639
EP - 658
VL - 45
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -