His administration scrapped the ad hoc, patronage-style process previous presidents had used and began vetting potential nominees to find those who shared its philosophy.
This is at least in part because it evolved into the patronage-style politics found in parts of the Indian subcontinent, with community leaders helping to provide electoral support for Labour from their communities.
The Christian Democrats were known for their cronyistic, patronage-based style of politics.
In the peninsula the profusely sculptured rock-cut temples such as the Kailasa at the Ellora Caves, under Calukya and Rashtrakuta patronage, displayed a style of their own.
The programs have the feel of old-style patronage.
They also included LDP-style patronage and pork as an electoral and governing strategy, particularly in rural districts.
In recent weeks, his nonstop campaigning, in which he has vowed to sweep out corruption and old-style patronage politics, has electrified the public.
Indeed, she asserted, they flirted with the very Tammany Hall-style patronage system that led to the creation of the independent examiners in the first place, in 1898.
He has also vowed to increase meritocracy in a culture of Ottoman-style patronage where party affiliation has often trumped skill in fierce competition for public-sector jobs.
The aristocratic Captain Owen Stanley, commander of the Rattlesnake, posted Huxley's papers to his father, the bishop of Norwich, for London publication; but such old-style patronage galled Huxley, who insisted that science no longer needed aristocratic sanction.
The question now is whether the party, known for its almost Chicago-style patronage system and ironclad rule, will be purged by Mr. Gulotta's exit or if an angry electorate will continue to punish it in November.
