Patronage And Power

Author : Ben Hillman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804791618

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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 : John K. Chow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567111869

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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 : Colum Hourihane
Publisher : Index of Christian Art
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 0983753741

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Patronage by Colum Hourihane Pdf

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 : Jeffrey Simpson
Publisher : W. Collins & Sons Canada
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Patronage, Political
ISBN : UOM:39076000880760

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Spoils of Power by Jeffrey Simpson Pdf

Through the use of private letters, official documents and personal observations, the author examines the provincial and national use of patronage, from Sir John A. Macdonald's "purchase" of Nova Scotia's opponent of Confederation to the scandal-plagued Mulroney cabinet.

Author : Barbara Stephenson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351883641

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The Power and Patronage of Marguerite de Navarre by Barbara Stephenson Pdf

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 : Judith Chubb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521236371

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Patronage, Power and Poverty in Southern Italy by Judith Chubb Pdf

This book examines the Italy of the 1980s, which represents an unparalleled example of dualistic development - deeply divided between North and South.

Author : Stephen Browne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1003134475

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Aid and Influence by Stephen Browne Pdf

"This book turns the argument about aid effectiveness on its head. Since development assistance is inherently self-interested, a source of soft power, political manipulation and commercial opportunity, its real effectiveness could arguably be judged by the strength of donor influence and not by development impact. Its subjective nature means that its impact on development is often weak, mainly short-term and confined to limited and specific contexts. Aid as influence was prevalent during the Cold War era. The connection is equally strong in this century's newly bipolar world in which the contest is between western donors led by the USA, and China which is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on infrastructure as a means of influence in the global South. Influence permeates both bilateral and multilateral aid and in parallel with official aid, the rise of global philanthropy has seen it taken up by some of today's billionaires. The response by donors to the growing havoc caused by the three Cs - conflict, climate change and COVID - confirms the main findings of the book, which concludes by outlining what aid without influence would look like. This book draws on the author's 40 years of experience of the aid industry and will be essential reading for development students, practitioners and policy makers alike"--

Author : Virginia Oliveros
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781316514085

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Patronage at Work by Virginia Oliveros Pdf

Describes what patronage employees do in exchange for their jobs and provides a novel explanation of why they do it.

Author : Guy Fitch Lytle,Stephen Orgel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781400855919

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Patronage in the Renaissance by Guy Fitch Lytle,Stephen Orgel Pdf

The fourteen essays in this collection explore the dominance of patronage in Renaissance politics, religion, theatre, and artistic life. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Angma Dey Jhala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317316572

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Royal Patronage, Power and Aesthetics in Princely India by Angma Dey Jhala Pdf

Investigating the aesthetics of the zenana – the female quarters of the Indic home or palace – this study discusses the history of architecture, fashion, jewellery and cuisine in princely Indian states during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Author : Richard Graham
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1994-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804723367

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Patronage and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil by Richard Graham Pdf

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 : David Stephenson
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786838193

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Patronage and Power in the Medieval Welsh March by David Stephenson Pdf

This is the first full-length study of a Welsh family of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries who were not drawn from the princely class. Though they were of obscure and modest origins, the patronage of great lords of the March – such as the Mortimers of Wigmore or the de Bohun earls of Hereford – helped them to become prominent in Wales and the March, and increasingly in England. They helped to bring down anyone opposed by their patrons – like Llywelyn, prince of Wales in the thirteenth century, or Edward II in the 1320s. In the process, they sometimes faced great danger but they contrived to prosper, and unusually for Welshmen one branch became Marcher lords themselves. Another was prominent in Welsh and English government, becoming diplomats and courtiers of English kings, and over some five generations many achieved knighthood. Their fascinating careers perhaps hint at a more open society than is sometimes envisaged.

Author : John P. Willerton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521392884

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Patronage and Politics in the USSR by John P. Willerton Pdf

How do Soviet politicians rise to power? How are national and regional regimes formed? How are conflicting political interests brought together as policies are developed in the Soviet Union? In Patronage and Politics in the USSR, first published in 1991, Professor John Willerton offers major insights into the patronage networks that have dominated elite mobility, regime formation, and governance in the Soviet Union during the past twenty-five years. Using the biographical and career details of over two thousand national leaders and regional officials in Azerbaijan and Lithuania, John Willerton traces the patron-client relations underlying recruitment, mobility, and policymaking. He explores the strategies of power consolidation and coalition building used by Soviet chief executives since 1964 as well as the institutional links and policy outcomes that have resulted from network politics. The author also assesses the manner and extent to which leaders in politically stable and less stable settings, spanning different national cultural contexts, have relied upon patronage networks to consolidate power and to govern. Finally, Professor Willerton explores how, in a period of dramatic change, patron-client networks may have given way to institutionalised interest groups and political parties.

Author : Theodore J. Lowi
Publisher : [New York] : Free Press of Glencoe
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015005786689

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At the Pleasure of the Mayor by Theodore J. Lowi Pdf

Author : J. Pauline Croft,Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art,Yale Center for British Art
Publisher : Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300091362

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Patronage, Culture, and Power by J. Pauline Croft,Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art,Yale Center for British Art Pdf

The Cecils were the dominant noble family in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. William, Lord Burghley rose to power and great wealth under Elizabeth I, then used his extensive patronage and exceptional breadth of interests to advance the Cecils' remarkable political and cultural pre-eminence. This wide-ranging collection of essays draws on architectural and art history, court studies, English literature, garden history, musicology, economic history, and women's studies. The extensive building programme of William, Lord Burghley and his son Robert, Earl of Salisbury was the most spectacular of the 16th and early 17th centuries, and much of it, particularly Burghley House and Hatfield House, still survives. Their encouragement of new processes of manufacturing was, like their splendid houses, innovative, forward-looking and highly influential. The Cecils were also innovative patrons of the arts. They were pioneers in the vogue for collecting paintings; patrons of musicians such as John Dowland and writers such as Ben Jonson; and introduced new styles of Renaissance design into gardens and interiors. The Cecil women, too, were influential in both political and cultural spheres. The no