The radical shrinking of Allende's bloated state was a way to avoid sharing patronage, and thus power, with the armed forces.With Chileans cowed, the Chicago Boys could work as if in a laboratory, with no regard for social costs.
This time it may be faster, but the worry is less about forming a government than about agreeing on how to share out patronage.
The Democrats gave up their claim to the presidency in return for promises from the Republicans to withdraw the remaining federal troops from the former Confederate states, to end Northern interference in local Southern politics, to share Southern patronage with Democrats, and to appoint at least one Southern Democrat to the cabinet.
He is thought of as somehow "English", yet we share his patronage with Turkey (his attributed birthplace), Syria (his possible nationality) and Palestine (where he is reputed to have lived) - not to mention Portugal, Aragon, Catalonia, Lithuania, Germany, Greece, Moscow, Istanbul, Genoa and Venice (where he is also honoured as a saint).
From then on, Woburn and Leicester were to share the patronage, each appointing their own vicars to the parish, known as Chesham Woburn and Chesham Leicester.
The Christian Democrats, backed by U.S. military and financial muscle, shared power and patronage with their smaller pro-Western coalition partners.
The second is Kata'ib Hezbollah, which shares the Iranian patronage and ideology of the Lebanese group of the same name, but has no other known links to it.
Introduced to Goethe in 1774, Charles Augustus formed a lifelong friendship with the poet, who shared the grand duke's patronage at Weimar with such other intellectuals as the philosopher Johann Gottfried von Herder and the poet Friedrich Schiller.
Mr. Rodgers doled out his share of patronage, too.
The antagonists want a bigger share of patronage and other spoils.
