ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies first of all clientelist parties and consequently clientelist parliamentarism as a form of government, and clientelist democracy or a clientelist regime. In order to understand the essence of the symbiotic informal client-client relationship, it is worth noting that in addition to the tobacco industry and solar energy, the gambling industry became a privileged sector of the economy in the Czech Republic. The mutual client-client relationship between non-transparent politics and business may also take on forms which become personnel reshuffles or personnel unions. Attention was drawn to the systemic nature of clientelist and corrupt behaviour in the Czech Republic by Vaclav Rajlich, a professor of computer games, using game theory, specifically the game Prisoner’s Dilemma. The clientelist kind of political party, based on a symbiosis between the world of politics and business, produces a primary tendency leading to a substantial weakening of ties between politics and society.
