0 Peasants, Patrons, and Parties: The Tension between Clientelism and Democracy in Nepal 1 by Madhav Joshi Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies University of Notre Dame mjoshi2@nd.edu and T. David Mason (contact author) masontd@unt.edu Department of Political Science University of North Texas P. O. Box 305340 Denton, TX 76203-5340 940-565-2386 (fax: 4818) Keywords: provision of public goods, democracy, clientelistic dependency, land tenure, Nepal, Maoist insurgency. Forth Coming, International Studies Quarterly, March 2011. 1 We would like to thank ISA anonymous referee, and Mehmet Gurses for their comments and suggestions. An earlier version of this manuscript was presented at the International Studies Association Annual Conference in Ney York in 2009. Data and a replication file for this article are available online at http://www.isanet.org/data_archive.html or http://www.nd.edu/~mjoshi2