Sentence examples for personalized power from inspiring English sources

It attempts to address the question of why Philippine polities, like early historic kingdoms elsewhere in Southeast Asia, have a segmentary political structure in which political leaders are dependent on prestige goods exchanges, personal charisma, and ritual pageantry to maintain highly personalized power bases.

First, Xi has personalized power, which means he has deinstitutionalized the CCP's collective leadership.

BUENOS AIRES — Last week, I took a look at President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's cancer diagnosis and how she has personalized power far too much.

Even Deng's long shadow has taken time to fade, but by now, the researcher said, China is deep into a new, less certain era of "palace politics," the sort of highly personalized power plays that characterized many imperial dynasties.

Coming on the heels of her landslide re-election victory in October, the public's reaction to Kirchner's illness is an alarming reminder that she has centralized and personalized power far too much and at the expense of institution-building, which has been desperately needed since the country's spectacular economic collapse a decade ago.

Meritocracy may be attractive, but personalized power cults are not a foundation for moral leadership.

By personalizing power, he also came to personify his government and nation.

"The tendency of the petrostate is to recentralize, petrify and personalize power," said Margarita López Maya, a political scientist who long supported Chávez but is now disillusioned.

They have increased their influence over the media and electoral politics, personalizing power to the point that their official title has become increasingly meaningless.

He uses them early on to test out his plans to expand and personalize executive power on political elites, the press and the public, watching their reactions as they arrange into the timeless categories of allies, enemies and those who help him by remaining silent.

It is commonly used by people with a high personalized-power drive under low-stress situations and people with a high socialized-power drive when stress is high.