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Patron-client relations and ecclesiastical careers
Catholic Historical Review, 2015In this study on the role of patronage in ecclesiastical careers, the central role of Rome in the distribution of benefices in Portuguese cathedrals is highlighted. Kings, bishops, and others used canonries as payment for services rendered. Although the virtues of the applicants for canonries were important, patronage ties could override personal ...
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Patrons, Clients and Secretaries: Governance in Chinese Villages
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015Problems of agent control and localized power bases have impeded efforts by successive regimes in Beijing — from the Imperial dynasties to the post-reform Communist Party — to exert central rule over the Chinese countryside. While the institution of “self-rule” through Villagers’ Committee elections was aimed at improving governance at the grassroots ...
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Right to contestation, patron-client networks, and corruption
Voprosy Ekonomiki, 2012In the paper the nature of Russian corruption is considered along the lines proposed by D. North, J. Wallis, and B. Weingast. The author considers patron-client networks as basic political and economic actors of the limited access order. The redistributive rent allocated within patron-client networks is not a corruption phenomenon. The main factor that
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Arms, Alliances, and Patron-Client Relationships
International Security, 2018Tongfi Kim +3 more
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Moscow and Damascus: A Patron-Client Relationship?
1991Analyses of international politics, especially great-power/small-state relationships, often fall within one of the following two broad categories: ‘the patron-client relationship’ and the ‘tail wags the dog’ (or, ‘the power of the weak’). The first mode of analysis argues that relationships between actors of unequal power and status favour, by and ...
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Politicians’ Patron–Client Networks and Corporate Investments
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022Ping Guo, Guifeng Shi, Gary Gang Tian
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Patron-Client Networks and Professional Corruption Brokers
This chapter focuses on patron–client networks and professional corruption brokers, two important elements of the system that help maintain state capture and social control in Hungary. One of the key features of the pervasive patron–client system in Hungary is that it provides public jobs for politically loyal clients and their families.openaire +1 more source