Patronage
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To make matters worse, Karzai issued a decree on February 13 permitting him to appoint all of the ECC's members, a measure clearly designed to strengthen the
patronage
system and weaken opposition movements’ prospects in future elections and a strong demonstration that his administration is not serious about establishing greater government accountability.
And they were not entirely wrong:
patronage
and graft remain rampant in Afghanistan.
The good news here is that Ghani’s government has already recognized the problems presented by patronage, corruption, and institutional weakness, and has promised to tackle them.
In most cases, local-level leaders have welcomed immunization workers, seeing vaccination programs as a form of
patronage
that reinforces their authority.
The idealism of India’s freedom movement quickly evaporated after independence in the face of the opportunities for
patronage
that came with power.
He was also well known for helping Kim Jong-il create North Korea’s nomenklatura – the complex system of patronage, part and parcel of communism, that ensures officials’ loyalty to the regime.
So if the US and India demand, as they will, that Pakistan disband the Lashkar and similar terrorist outfits that have enjoyed military
patronage
in the past, dismantle their training facilities, freeze their bank accounts (before they are simply transferred to another name) and arrest their leaders, they will face a typically Pakistani conundrum: the military isn’t willing, and the civilian government isn’t able.
More than 60% of Russians believe they can provide for themselves, and do not want state
patronage.
In order to secure power in the most turbulent months of his political career, Berlusconi obtained the support of many MPs through patronage, publicly attacked his prosecutors, and tried to water down the emergency budget adopted in July in order to benefit his own companies.
Rather, the main problem with oil booms is that they give rise to a series of pathologies--rent seeking, patronage, corruption, plunder--that corrode vital domestic public institutions and undermine governance.
This perpetuates politics, even democratic politics, as
patronage.
Given the vast
patronage
system that Saddam had created, such people included even elementary school principals.
Society may not owe something to people who worked in inefficient industries or held
patronage
jobs.
Back then, political capital was built around such projects – and not only because of
patronage
and corruption.
But this short-run fall in the price of oil should not let us lose sight of the long-term political problem; namely the fact that the major part of the present oil production is concentrated in countries governed by autocracies which use oil resources to maintain repressive
patronage
regimes, finance extravagant consumption by the elites, and acquire a terrifying amount of arms.
At that point producer countries - which depend on oil revenues to maintain consumption, political power, and
patronage
- try to raise prices by cutting production, and the cycle resumes.
But in many former communist countries, older systems of
patronage
and corruption have survived, and taken new forms.
But because these countries have proportionate election systems and divided executive power, no central
patronage
network has emerged.
Its pyramidal
patronage
network, similar to that created by Vladimir Putin in Russia, appears to be nearly indestructible.
This is especially significant because, unlike his predecessors, Trump refused to detach himself from his private business when he took office (though he turned over its management to his two adult sons), and therefore stood to profit from these countries’
patronage.
But European regulation is as nothing compared to the mountains of national laws and decrees, billions wasted in political patronage, and the colossal state machines that eat up 30-40% of the economic product of Europe's nation states.
Given the central government’s well-known inability to enforce its policies at the local level and the prevalence of tight-knit
patronage
networks in Chinese provinces and cities, it is unrealistic to expect that the current anti-corruption drive will produce significantly better results than in the past.
If anything, China has proven that a country can blend control, coercion, and
patronage
to stymie the Internet’s politically liberalizing elements.
But the ANC government will still have to focus on short-term measures and
patronage
in order to shore up its electoral support.
The most recent “President’s Conference,” held in June in Jerusalem under the
patronage
of Israeli President Shimon Peres, was highly symbolic of this evolution.
Citizens of the other Russia-backed breakaway regions have long been subjugated by their squalid “feudal democratic” systems, in which local leaders routinely stage sham elections and base their power on mafia-style corruption and
patronage.
Renaissance Florence depended on the
patronage
of the Medici.
But the differences between the candidates are not about ideas and programs, but about the power to hand out money, jobs, and
patronage
to party hacks.
So it exploits China’s goodwill and national-security concerns, and even regards Chinese
patronage
as its due.
On the one hand, he needs to maximize his control of the economy and society in order to raise wages and pensions and to keep opponents down, while nourishing the long-tail of
patronage
that keeps him in power.
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