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Patron-Client Relations in the Later Han

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1983
During the second Century A.D., much of the social and political activity of upper class men was organized on the basis of private ties between superiors and inferiors. These patron-client ties were created every time a man took on a teacher, accepted an appointment as a political subordinate, or received a recommendation for office by an official ...
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Patron-Client Relationships in Southern Italy

European Journal of Political Research, 1973
Abstract Political clientelism in Southern Italy has shown great persistence and capacity for conditioning the entire Italian political development. Accounting for these characteristics, clientelism is better understood as the product of the incomplete capitalistic rationalization of the Southern economy ...
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States of dependency or patron-client relations?

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2016
Comment on “Academic precarity as hierarchical dependence in the Max Planck Society” by Vita Peacock, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory , Volume 6, Issue 1, Summer 2016.
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The patron-client relationship in peasant society

2022
This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author. Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
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The Patron-Client Relationship in Interviewing: An Anthropological View

The Oral History Review, 1987
(1987). The Patron-Client Relationship in Interviewing: An Anthropological View. The Oral History Review: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 71-80.
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Patrons, Clients and Secretaries: Governance in Chinese Villages

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
Problems 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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Moscow and Damascus: A Patron-Client Relationship?

1991
Analyses 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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The decline of patron-client relations in developed societies

European Journal of Sociology, 1983
An enormous amount of scholarly attention has been devoted to the phenomenon of patron-client relations both in the form of conceptual elaboration and to the application of the patronage model to a wide variety of empirical situations. However despite the prodigious amount written on the relationship its analytical status remains equivocal: no one, for
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International patron-client relationships: A conceptual framework

Studies In Comparative International Development, 1989
Dependency theory has cast new light on the workings of the international political economy, and on the relations between more and less developed countries. Insofar as dependency theory aims at specifying generalsystemic constraints on the behavior of Third World states, its ability to explain/predict how particular Third World states respond to these ...
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Right to contestation, patron-client networks, and corruption

Voprosy Ekonomiki, 2012
In 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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