What is the relationship between clientelism and political participation in popular urban neighborhoods? This article addresses the question based on qualitative research in two popular neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, drawing on participant observation and interviews with residents, activists, and party brokers. Adding to a growing literature on “participatory clientelism,” we argue for greater attention to the urban context through which this unfolds. To date, research into participatory clientelism has predominantly considered specific practices—participatory innovations or contentious politics—and been limited to the survival of the urban poor and the demand for political support by party brokers. While these are crucial practices, they are not exhaustive of the relations that sustain participatory clientelism, particularly in contexts of territorialized politics. Based on the socio-spatial approach of Henri Lefebvre, influential in urban studies, we define three interconnected dimensions of participatory clientelism and identify them in the cases under study.

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参与式依附主义：布宜诺斯艾利斯大众政治的社会空间方法


在流行的城市社区中，依附主义与政治参与之间有什么关系？本文基于对布宜诺斯艾利斯两个热门社区的定性研究，利用参与者观察以及对居民、活动人士和政党经纪人的采访来解决这个问题。除了越来越多的关于“参与式依附主义”的文献之外，我们还主张更多地关注这种现象发生的城市环境。迄今为止，对参与式依附主义的研究主要考虑了具体实践——参与式创新或有争议的政治——并且仅限于城市贫民的生存和政党经纪人对政治支持的需求。虽然这些都是重要的实践，但它们并没有详尽地阐述维持参与式依附主义的关系，特别是在领土化政治的背景下。基于在城市研究中具有影响力的亨利·列斐伏尔的社会空间方法，我们定义了参与式依附主义的三个相互关联的维度，并在所研究的案例中识别它们。