patronage network
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patronage
noun[U]
uk/ˈpæt.rə.nɪdʒ/us/ˈpæt.rə.nɪdʒ/
the support given to an organization ...
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network
noun[C]
uk/ˈnet.wɜːk/us/ˈnet.wɝːk/
a large system consisting of many similar parts that are connected together to allow movement or communication between or along the parts, or between the parts and a ...
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(Definition ofpatronageandnetworkfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Legitimacy in protest no longer arose through membership in apatronagenetwork.
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Second, she also cultivated her royalist connections to benefit her personalpatronagenetwork, and to enhance her own position within it.
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Halifax'spatronagenetwork, and they co-occur with modal auxiliaries.
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Fundamentally, corruption formed an important component of thepatronagenetwork, facilitating elite accumulation.
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They researched her political sympathies,patronagenetworkand influence over foreign policy and religious affairs.
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They sought, acquired and profited from a stake in its patronage networks.
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Stated another way, this situation leaves the state par ticularly vulnerable to subversion by religious activists through patronage networks.
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This helped local politicians build independent patronage networks that served their own interests and that helped launch their own national careers.
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Although the city was technically a democracy of sorts, his power came from a vastpatronagenetwork along with his alliance to the new immigrants, the gente nuova.
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As a result, political par ties are weak and tend to be patronage networks rather than ideological groupings.
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Although the city was technically a democracy of sorts, his power came from a vastpatronagenetwork along with his alliance to the new immigrants, the "gente nuova" (new people).
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Most significantly, autonomy has allowed organisations to operate outside state-based patronage networks.
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They understood that this depended largely on their ability to build up and sustain patronage networks through the fulfilment of various community functions within the city.
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Its political processes evolved a multiparty system of governance maintained by patronage networks that extended from the state house and parliament down to the chieftaincies, sections and villages.
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Nevertheless, both urban and rural organisations generally do not depend on the traditional state patronage networks that have resulted in many of the dysfunctional state-society relations described above.
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When superpower sponsorship ended, commanders reconfigured the illicit economic enterprises to generate their own funding to maintain their militias, increase their patronage networks, and to acquire additional military equipment.
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Tight domestic budgets and increasing time spent away from the hometown helped to loosen railwaymen's ties with their natal communities, although many formed urban and work-based patronage networks.
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Colonial rule circumscribed patronage networks.
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Taylor's government was a controlled commercial empire, within which there is little evidence to support claims of social welfare, beyond international agencies and narrow patronage networks.
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