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A seminar with Steven T. Brooke on his new book Winning Hearts and Votes: Social Services and the Islamist Political Advantage from Cornell University Press.
A seminar with Steven T. Brooke on his new book Winning Hearts and Votes: Social Services and the Islamist Political Advantage from Cornell University Press.
In non-democratic regimes around the world, non-state organizations provide millions of citizens with medical care, schooling, childrearing, and other critical social services. Why would any authoritarian countenance this type of activism? Under what conditions does the private provision of social services generate political mobilization? And in those cases, what linkage does the provision of social services forge between the provider and recipient?
"In this dazzling study of healthcare provision by a religiously conservative party in Egypt, Steven Brooke convinces us that service provision does not buy votes so much as it buys esteem. This is a model of empirical sophistication and precision and brings the Egyptian case into dialogue with broader literature on political parties and clientelism. This is comparative politics of the first rank."
- Tarek Masoud, Harvard University
"Steven Brooke’s book will sit comfortably on the shelf next to several recent classics in the political science literature by Egyptian specialists, and will be discussed alongside those by many."
- Daniel Corstange, Columbia University
