No other sport has ever received such top-level patronage in India.
"The key significance of the congress is an occasion when access to top jobs and patronage is circulated," said one analyst, Martin Gainsborough, a Southeast Asia specialist at the University of Bristol and author of the 2010 book "Vietnam: Rethinking the State".
In Moscow, the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev wildly exaggerated the significance of Sputnik in order to tighten his tenuous grip on power, while the Soviet scientists responsible for the satellite touted their accomplishment to maintain the patronage of top policy makers.
Russian government 'using mafia for its dirty work.' The Kremlin relies on criminals and rewards them with political patronage, while top officials collect bribes 'like a personal taxation system'.
Even their textbook talk of Pushtun tribal politics sounds as if it is drawn from an earlier, purer time before war, drugs, mafia barons and foreign invaders tore apart the old tribal fabric.Set against that is a keen awareness among the top soldiers that coalition patronage itself has bred political monsters, not least Ahmed Wali Karzai, Kandahar's shadow shogun and the president's half-brother.
Whatever the conservative depiction of it, Chavismo – Chavez's political approach – wasn't just a top-down form of patronage that gave poor voters a piece of the pie from the country's booming crude-oil market.
A series of scandals and revelations this year have undermined confidence in China's leaders and cast greater scrutiny on the prevalence of nepotism and patronage at the top ranks of the party.
"These sanctions undermine the patronage system among top government and military officials," Diego Moya-Ocampos, senior analyst for the Americas at IHS Country Risk, told VICE News.
Judge Lippman's memorandum follows a promise by the state's top judge, Judith S. Kaye, to rein in patronage.
In essence, the village poor must take their place along with everyone else in a perfect hierarchy topped by the king's benevolent patronage.
