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  • adjective Of or pertaining to clientelism.

Etymologies

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clientele +‎ -istic

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Examples

  • The formal equality offered by the liberal state of pre-war Greece effectively preserved the rights and privileges of the propertied classes and effectively entrenched a clientelistic structure of power from which the great majority of men, and women, were excluded.

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • 'Class and clientelistic politics: The case of Greece'.

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • Meanwhile, the decline of Mexico's Partido Revolucionario Istitucional, which culminated in its loss of the presidency in 2000 after seven decades of uninterrupted one-party rule, shook the clientelistic networks that the historical crime syndicates had established with the authorities.

    Federico Manfredi: Cartel Warfare: How Mexico Lost Ciudad Juárez PART 2 2010

  • Meanwhile, the decline of Mexico's Partido Revolucionario Istitucional, which culminated in its loss of the presidency in 2000 after seven decades of uninterrupted one-party rule, shook the clientelistic networks that the historical crime syndicates had established with the authorities.

    Federico Manfredi: Cartel Warfare: How Mexico Lost Ciudad Juárez PART 2 Federico Manfredi 2010

  • Meanwhile, the decline of Mexico's Partido Revolucionario Istitucional, which culminated in its loss of the presidency in 2000 after seven decades of uninterrupted one-party rule, shook the clientelistic networks that the historical crime syndicates had established with the authorities.

    Cartel Warfare: How Mexico Lost Ciudad Juárez PART 2 Federico Manfredi 2010

  • Meanwhile, the decline of Mexico's Partido Revolucionario Istitucional, which culminated in its loss of the presidency in 2000 after seven decades of uninterrupted one-party rule, shook the clientelistic networks that the historical crime syndicates had established with the authorities.

    Federico Manfredi: Cartel Warfare: How Mexico Lost Ciudad Ju��rez PART 2 2009

  • In the organisation of Taiwan's local policy, local factions difang paixi are local-level clientelistic networks.

    Farmers Associations and Rural Politics Michael Turton 2007

  • The organisational capacity of the KMT, a tailor-made electoral system and its clientelistic relationship to the local factions made influence on electoral outcomes highly effective during authoritarianism.

    Farmers Associations and Rural Politics Michael Turton 2007

  • "Corruption, cronyism, clientelistic politics; a lot of money was wasted basically through these types of practices."

    The Guardian World News John Lanchester 2011

  • Far better healthcarebill, no clientelistic protectionsm, probably less aggressive in Afgahnistan.

    Center for American Progress Action Fund myglesias 2010

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