Sentence examples for resources patronage from inspiring English sources
He is described as dominating access to "economic resources, patronage and protection".
Ahmed Wali Karzai – according to Wikileaks * "As the kingpin of Kandahar, the President's younger half-brother Ahmed Wali Karzai (AWK) dominates access to economic resources, patronage, and protection.
Using his resources of patronage and persuasion upon certain of the Democrats, he managed to get the necessary two-thirds vote before the session's end.
An additional argument in the context of devolution is the lack of political will on the part of elected officials to invest in health and the risk of local elites capturing and redistributing resources through patronage systems.
Such men often acquired university education through their family resources, through the patronage of more substantial nobles, or through church influence, particularly support from the pope and his court.
Transferred to a southern context, this model potentially fetishizes the development of 'research leaders', who then serve as (frequently over-committed) gatekeepers of resources and potential patronage.
Because they need resources to fuel their patronage machine, they typically promote economic development through industrialization, commodity exports, and education.
In Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria and Venezuela, for example, political elites have used state-owned resource companies to serve patronage agendas--often (though not exclusively) through legal means.
That's why some Nigerians believe that the northern elite quietly tolerated — or even abetted — the sect, as a way to bog down Mr. Jonathan's government, and to preserve the privileges of political patronage by keeping resources flowing to the north.
Institutional patronage refers to resources and security offered to employed women by their employers.
Union and Upazila councils tend to be controlled by local elites since their resources allow them to build the patronage systems necessary to get elected.
