patrimonialism

However, we must be clear that none of this is a problem of "patrimonialism", as our detractors claim -- a problem which could be eradicated by "regime change."

MRZine.org 2009

However, we must be clear that none of this is a problem of "patrimonialism", as our detractors claim -- a problem which could be eradicated by "regime change."

MRZine.org 2009

Check out 'patron-client systems' and 'neo-patrimonialism' on Google: there is a mass of material about precisely what you suggest, the tendency for power to gravitate to fewer individuals and their cronies.

newmatilda.com - Comments 2009

The diversity in transcriptions of patrimonialism and its neo-patrimonial avatar observed in Latin America, Asia and post-communist States from Europe to Central Asia called for the reassertion of a distinction between thoroughly patrimonialised States and patrimonialism within the State.

The Hindu - Front Page 2009

KOTTAYAM: Receptions of neo-patrimonialism reveal a striking contrast between its quasi-hegemonic diffusion in Africa and scanty mobilisation outside the continent, Daniel Bach, professor at Sciences Po Bordeaux, France, has said.

The Hindu - Front Page 2009

The related association of neo-patrimonialism with teleology of the 'development of underdevelopment' of the African State also accounted for a recent wave of critique.

The Hindu - Front Page 2009

He said that during the 1980s and 1990s, the mobilisation of neo-patrimonialism to monitor the trajectories of post-colonial African regimes was vivified by research on systems of the personal rule, the informalisation of politics, the transitions towards democracy and the international political economy of the continent.

The Hindu - Front Page 2009

The tendency to equate neo-patrimonialism with regimes associated with integral and predatory patterns of personal rule had also contributed to transform the African neo-patrimonial State into an archetype of the anti-developmental State.

The Hindu - Front Page 2009