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The patron may be the Crown, the Lord Chancellor, the diocesan bishop, an individual, the Diocesan Board of Patronage, a college, a society or (usually in the case of a team ministry) a group of individuals/bodies or a special board of patronage. If more than one person or body is involved, patronage is either exercised jointly or by turns ...
May 15, 2013 · However broad, all conceptualisations of patronage revolve around four elements: the characteristics of the two actors involved (patron and client) and the nature of the two goods to be exchanged (from patron to client and vice versa); the patrons in the present study are political parties, and the clients are party loyalists. The goods that parties as patrons award their clients are positions ...
- Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik
- 2014
- What Is Political Patronage?
- Patronage, Corruption and Conflict of Interest
- Combatting Corruption and Political Patronage
- The Future of Patronage in Canada
Political patronage is the dispensation of favours or rewards such as public office, jobs, contracts, subsidies, prestige or other valued benefits by a patron (who controls their dispensation) to a client. The patron is usually an elected official or is otherwise empowered to make such grants. In return, the client supplies the patron with some val...
The relationship between patron and client is often murky and may involve go-betweens, or brokers, in cases of corruption and conflict of interest. In addition, many potential clients are rewarded not for specific quid pro quo exchanges but for party loyalty. For example, a long-time political donor might not explicitly purchase or bribe their way ...
Canadian parties have traditionally used patronage to build political machines to maintain their advantage over rivals. Elaborate machines were created by the Conservative and Liberal parties in the 19th and 20th centuries respectively, and by many provincial parties. Since passing the 1974 Election Expenses Act, Parliament and several provincial l...
Since the practice of patronage ranges from relatively harmless staffing decisions, to suspect appointments of political loyalists, to outright criminal corruption, bribery and kickbacks, eliminating patronage from government is difficult. Despite attempts at reform, it remains an important aspect of Canadian politics; prime ministers Pierre Trudea...
patronage’). Our dataset allows for the comparison of patronage across countries and regions as well as within countries across types of institutions, policy areas and levels in institutional hierarchies. The Research Note therefore presents a starting point for a more fine-grained understanding of patronage practices around the world.
Jan 13, 2014 · Abstract. For centuries, the capacity of British ministers to appoint individuals to positions on the boards of agencies, boards and commissions was viewed as little more than one element of the ‘spoils of war’ in a highly majoritarian polity. This article examines how the politics of patronage has evolved in recent decades and argues that ...
- Matthew Flinders, Marc Geddes
- 2014
Jul 27, 2020 · The basic argument here is that patronage is one form of a broader concept of. politicization of the public service. Gov ernments have sev eral options for imposing. their political control ov er ...
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Jan 1, 2009 · Political patronage is the appointment or hiring of a person to a government post on the basis of partisan loyalty. Elected officials at the national, state, and local levels of government use such appointments to reward the people who help them win and maintain office. This practice led to the saying, “To the victor go the spoils.”.
