Republicans also maintain a system of patronage through control of many of the 140 or so special tax districts in the county.
Their main power is patronage: they control appointments in the local outposts of federal agencies such as the prosecutor's office and the tax police.
He said Canada would demand that the "international community... stand up for the silent majority or be blamed for letting Karzai and his family establish across the country the system of patronage and control that exists in Kandahar".
He said Canada would demand that the "international community must stand up for the silent majority or be blamed for letting Karzai and his family establish across the country the system of patronage and control that exists in Kandahar".
Without them, a powerful president unconcerned about accountability can use patronage to control institutions like the legislature and courts, and through them rig the mechanisms of elections in his favor.
The traumas of nation-building of the kind being experienced in Zimbabwe, with its corrupt system of patronage and control, as outlined by Martin Meredith in his lucid new study, are the inevitable consequences of attempting to impose inappropriate Western models of government on artificially constructed nation-states.
He was emotional, saying the issue "makes my blood boil," as he described the Canadian view that the international community must stand up for the silent majority or be blamed for letting Karzai and his family establish across the country the system of patronage and control that exists in Kandahar.
Amani Leo was not only moderately successful but also gave its commanders power, patronage, and control over lucrative mines and trade routes.
While the positioning of official yamens in the center of the city, which was itself surrounded by walls, suggests a spatially concentrated projection of imperial power, in fact official patronage and control spilled beyond the city's walls to Baotu Spring and Thousand Buddha Mountain.
"Should Nguesso's ability to dispense patronage and control the corruption in the oil industry spiral out of hand in his third term with oil revenues drying up — violence, like in other parts of Africa, is sure to follow," the group warned, adding that the risk to investors in Congo was rising.
