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This paper deals with the problem of political clientelism in Serbia broadly  defined as the selective distribution of benefits (money, jobs, information,  a variety of privileges) to individuals or clearly defined groups in exchange  for political support. The main objective is to explain why political  clientelism is widespread in Serbia and which key factors determine its shape  and intensity. The explanation is based on the analysis of historical factors  of development of clientelism in Serbia, as well as on analysis of data from  a recent research on informal relations between political and economic elites  in Serbia and Kosovo. The paper concludes that clientelism and informality  have represented one of the structuring principles of socioeconomic and  political development of Serbian society under the conditions of weak formal  institutions and socio-historical heritage of late modernization. On the  other hand, since 2000 economic and political sphere in Serbia became more  open and competitive which influenced change in the character of clientelism  in Serbia - the increased rivalry among different clientelistic (sub)networks  heightened the chance of opportunistic defection even at the top level, which  made political power of patrons more tradable and the relation inside the  power network less asymmetric.

On inevitability of political clientelism in contemporary Serbia