Is Obama naïve enough to think that an extremist ideological organization like Hezbollah can be mollified with a less corrupt patronage system and some electoral reform?
The report, commissioned by the state's highest court, details endemic patronage within the organization, including a "sham selection process" in which favored job applicants were automatically pushed to the next round of hiring, often with more qualified candidates passed over.
Lawmakers who voted to remove the ministers insisted that on balance a change in leadership would improve security, even though it will likely mean personnel shuffles throughout the organizations' patronage networks.
In addition to seeking and coordinating the patronage of public organizations and private and corporate donations, Sasanelli offered his own patronage.
This year the festival focuses on a theme particularly relevant to cash-strapped arts organizations: musical patronage.
The Adam's Mark hotel chain, facing a federal racial discrimination suit, has lost the patronage of two national organizations, and two other groups that had booked rooms for national conferences are considering cancellations.
An important factor for the advancement of the MIATA process was the support and patronage received early on by organizations, namely the Cancer Immunotherapy Consortium of the Cancer Research Institute (CIC/CRI) and the Association of Cancer Immunotherapy (CIMT), the Human Immune Monitoring Center at Stanford, and the Italian Network for Biotherapy of Cancer (NIBIT).
The I.O.C. itself is an organization defined by cronyism, patronage, scandal and elitism.
But as late as the early 1980s, the Brooklyn Democratic organization commanded contracts and patronage, and steered young men and women, often of modest means, into politics.
Patronage was an important basis of social organization.
