The liberal conclusion is to set up the patron-client relationships of the Great Society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Growing Up Black] Reference

The traditional employment practice takes the pattern of an embroidered patron-client relation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The new institutionalism] Reference

Cambodia has a heritage of patron-client relationships, linked to the system of deference to authority.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cambodia: Revisiting the Killing Fields] Reference

But here on Taiwan, at the local level, messages don't matter, it's all about voter mobilization and patron-client networks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

He took campaign contributions that were large enough, and illegal enough, to suggest a patron-client relationship with a government vendor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waldo Jaquith - Federal filing in Goode/MZM scandal.] Reference

The patron-client system, with its hierarchy of linear, personal loyalties, may have allowed the Khmer Rouge to substitute itself for the rule of the monarchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cambodia: Revisiting the Killing Fields] Reference

This account serves to explain the evolution and persistence of the patron-client relation in cattle-camps on the basis of transaction costs costs of supervision.    From Wordnik.com.  [The new institutionalism] Reference

In an example of dialectical thinking run amok, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has turned the strategic logic behind the patron-client state relationship on its head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leon T. Hadar: Israel Needs to Adjust to a Post-American Age] Reference

Marsot says of the Nasser regime, "The real administration was carried out through exceptional decrees, through patron-client relationships, through appeals to individuals in power.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter From Egypt] Reference

In the circumstances of traditional cattle-rearing among the Orma the transaction costs of a straight wage-labor system are substantially greater than those associated with a patron-client system.    From Wordnik.com.  [The new institutionalism] Reference

And if it can build on this kind of collaborative arrangement, rather than simply a kind of patron-client relationship, which has been the characteristic in the past, then perhaps there is some hope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flood Gives Pakistan, U.S. Chance To Build Bridges] Reference

The only voices of support now seem to emerge from his few American well-wishers, like Allison, who are looking to maintain the comfortable old patron-client relationship between the US and Pakistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shuja Nawaz: Democratic Pakistan: an American Conundrum] Reference

Rather, Chen held that the wide variety of rural social relations--lineage, family, religious organization, patron-client, friendship--worked as powerful brakes on the emergence of class consciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

The patron-client relation gives the herder a long-term incentive to provide high-quality labor, for the quality of work can be assessed at the end of the season by assessment of the health and size of the herd.    From Wordnik.com.  [The new institutionalism] Reference

Senior members of those committees have vested interests in the status quo, in part because the committees and subcommittees have evolved complex, not to say cozy, patron-client relationships with interest groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [Republicans, Just Waiting] Reference

"The Lebanese political system is a patron-client system," he added.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com] Reference

Just analyse the patron-client USA-Israel relationship, and it is all clear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spectator Live] Reference

At the core of this patron-client relationship sat a "security-for-autonomy" bargain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy] Reference

Together, such measures would weaken the patron-client system and reduce vote-buying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The court should take into account the patron-client relationship, like the one B.B. Lal has with the B.P.    From Wordnik.com.  [Communalism Watch] Reference

It should, however, be noted that even during its high points this was essentially a patron-client relationship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloggers.Pakistan] Reference

Vote buying was a ceremonial part of this "patron-client" relationship and not seen as "wrong" by the rural voters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

It is pure nonsense to state that the Thai Rak Thai party was building a new strong patron-client system in the countryside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Contrary to the belief of many opponents of the American - Israeli patron-client relationship, Washington has never given Jerusalem a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy] Reference

The essence of a productive patron-client relationship (especially one involving a Great Power) is that it serve the interests of both parties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty] Reference

48The point where Parr moves from serving in Mary's Privy Chamber to becoming queen-consort is where terms like "patron-client relationship" seem too rigid.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558] Reference

In real life, Fatah leaders fear Hamas more than they fear Israel, and in any case they are deeply embedded in a type of patron-client relationship with the West.    From Wordnik.com.  [Israel Hasbara Committee] Reference

Slide 25: Giles Ji Ungpakorn 25 position today is that Thai Rak Thai built a new patron-client system and that this shows that Thailand can never have full democracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

They are fed up with the patron-client and the phuyai system and they want to have freedom of expression in order to make the establishment more transparent and accountable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News] Reference

For this to happen, there must be fundamental changes in the patron-client relationship that has been the hallmark of the 60-plus years the US has been dealing with Pakistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'] Reference

The patron-client relationship was so pervasive that it helps illuminate not only Rome’s social architecture but also, frequently, its way of conducting foreign affairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sack of Washington] Reference

Therefore the patron-client system is selected.    From Wordnik.com.  [The new institutionalism] Reference

Land was the currency of patron-client exchanges.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558] Reference

The patron-client system depended on the interaction between individuals and favoured informal flexible relationships ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Home] Reference

Not a patron-client relationship.    From Wordnik.com.  [English-writing Israeli-bloggers] Reference