Patronage Is Power
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Author | : Ben Hillman |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0804791619 |
Power and Patronage examines the unwritten rules and inner workings of contemporary China's local politics and government. It exposes how these rules have helped to keep the one-Party state together during decades of tumultuous political, social, and economic change. While many observers of Chinese politics have recognized the importance of informal institutions, this book explains how informal local groups actually operate, paying special attention to the role of patronage networks in political decision-making, political competition, and official corruption. While patronage networks are often seen as a parasite on the formal institutions of state, Hillman shows that patronage politics actually help China's political system function. In a system characterized by fragmented authority, personal power relations, and bureaucratic indiscipline, patronage networks play a critical role in facilitating policy coordination and bureaucratic bargaining. They also help to regulate political competition within the state, which reduces the potential for open conflict. Understanding patronage networks is essential for understanding the resilience of the Chinese state through decades of change. Power and Patronage is filled with rich and fascinating accounts of the machinations of patronage networks and their role in the ruthless and sometimes violent competition for political power.
Author | : Virginia Oliveros |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2021-11-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1316514080 |
Describes what patronage employees do in exchange for their jobs and provides a novel explanation of why they do it.
Author | : Colum Hourihane |
Publisher | : Index of Christian Art |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780983753742 |
The essays in this volume, from those that look at patronage from a theoretical perspective as it relates to issues such as gender, social and economic history, to individual case studies, highlight our need to look at the subject anew.
Author | : Richard Graham |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1994-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0804723362 |
Focusing on the period from 1840 to 1889, one of the leading historians on Brazil explores the specific ways in which granting protection, official positions, and other favors in exchange for political and personal loyalty worked to benefit the interests of wealthy Brazilians.
Author | : Barbara Stephenson |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 135188364X |
Although Marguerite de Navarre's unique position in sixteenth-century France has long been acknowledged and she is one of the most studied women of the time, until now no study has focused attention on Marguerite's political life. Barbara Stephenson here fills the gap, delineating Marguerite's formal political position and highlighting her actions as a figure with the opportunity to exercise power through both official and unofficial channels. Through Marguerite's surviving correspondence, Stephenson traces the various networks through which this French noblewoman exercised the power available to her to further the careers of political and religious clients, as well as her struggle to protect the interests of her brother the king and those of her own family and household. The analysis of Marguerite's activities sheds light on noble society as a whole.
Author | : John K. Chow |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 1992-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0567111865 |
From 1 Corinthians we know that the church at Corinth was beset by all sorts of problems. Some of these problems resulted from contacts with the pagan world - one member of the church cohabited with his stepmother, one brought a suit against another brother before the pagan magistrate, some ate idolatrous feasts at the pagan temple, and others underwent baptism for the dead. This refreshing and stimulating book seeks to understand the significance of these problems from the perspective of the social structures and conditions of this Graeco-Roman city, and places Paul's response to them in the same context.
Author | : Bo Rothstein |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2017-03-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1107163706 |
This book provides a systematic analysis of how the understanding of corruption has evolved and pinpoints what constitutes corruption.
Author | : Judith Chubb |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521236379 |
This book examines the Italy of the 1980s, which represents an unparalleled example of dualistic development - deeply divided between North and South.
Author | : Anastasia Piliavsky |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2014-10-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 110705608X |
Western policymakers, political activists and academics alike see patronage as the chief enemy of open, democratic societies. Patronage, for them, is a corrupting force, a hallmark of failed and failing states, and the obverse of everything that good, modern governance ought to be. South Asia poses a frontal challenge for this consensus. Here the world's most populous, pluralist and animated democracy is also a hotbed of corruption with persistently startling levels of inequality. Patronage as Politics in South Asia confronts this paradox with calm erudition: sixteen essays by anthropologists, historians and political scientists show, from a wide range of cultural and historical angles, that in South Asia patronage is no feudal residue or retrograde political pressure, but a political form vital in its own right. This volume suggests that patronage is no foe to South Asia's burgeoning democratic cultures, but may in fact be their main driving force.
Author | : Henry Stanley Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 1886 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : |