"patrimonial" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It typically refers to something that is related to inheritance or to something that has been passed down from previous generations. For example, "The family's patrimonial home had been in their family for over four generations."
Only a burst of rapid growth (from technological progress or rising population) or government intervention can be counted on to keep economies from returning to the "patrimonial capitalism" that worried Karl Marx.
"This is a patrimonial government," says Ms López Maya.The authoritarian state he commands is sliding towards totalitarianism.
Barring an increase in the oil price, it will then face a painful choice: default on its debt, which might allow creditors to seize assets, including PDVSA's foreign refineries, or impose a bigger devaluation and an even tighter import squeeze.A patrimonial regimeMr Maduro, a former bus driver, lacks Chávez's political cunning and popular appeal.
As Mr Fukuyama observes: "There is an inverse correlation between the strength of the centralised state and the strength of patrimonial groups.
He has been appointed the most powerful minister in the government, despite his lack of ministerial experience and his heavy defeat at the polls when he ran for mayor of Dakar a year ago.Opposition politicians such as Abdoulaye Bathily, leader of the Democratic League party, allege that these are worrying signs that Senegal is turning into a "family-run patrimonial state".
Mr Fukuyama likens this reciprocal gift-giving to the kind of patrimonial politics seen in 18th-century France.
Royal power was dynastic and patrimonial.
Unchecked, this contradiction will ultimately bring a return to what he called the "patrimonial capitalism" of the 19th century (as shown in the novels of such authors as Jane Austen and Honoré de Balzac, wherein the preferred path to wealth is inheritance or marriage rather than labour).
Moreover, a decree of 1714 that instituted succession by primogeniture and so prevented the breaking up of large properties also removed the old distinction between pomestya (lands granted by the tsar to the nobility in return for service) and votchiny (patrimonial or allodial lands) so that all such property became hereditary.
