clientelist

Examples

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• Thus, the study has shown that the scope of the clientelist network is limited.

  Academic text (2000)

• Even central Communist Party leaders have found it difficult to rein in clientelist excesses.

  Academic text (2014)

• In the literature from Latin America, electoral participation is at least implicitly linked to traditional clientelist politics.

  Academic text (1999)

• Empirical examination shows that the FIS reproduced the clientelist method of power.

  Academic text (1993)

• The authority of central governments in Upper Egypt was cemented through clientelist ties with leading families of the ashraf and Arab groups.

  Academic text (1999)

• The political strategies of the national ruling class, rooted in clientelist practices, paradoxically strengthen the autonomy of other sectors of Senegalese society.

  Academic text (1990)

• The scope and limits of the brokers' capacities belie the presumably all-powerful character of clientelist politics.

  Academic text (2000)

• Although China has had semi-competitive elections at the village level since 1987, these do not promote long-chain clientelist alliances linking national elites to local constituencies.

  Academic text (2014)

• In the view of some prominent Chinese public intellectuals, such unholy clientelist alliances constitute a serious and growing threat to the stability and potential survival of the Chinese Communist regime.

  Academic text (2014)

• As long as tax revenues, investments, and growth rates continue to rise, and organized protest is kept under control, it matters little, in political terms, whether local clientelist coalitions behave as paternalistic benefactors or rapacious predators.

  Academic text (2014)

Synonyms

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• Offensive

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A person who gives favors to get favors, often in a dishonest way

is focused on exchanging goods or favors specifically for political support or votes

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