Many prevailing views contend that African politics are strongly influenced by vertical networks of dyadic patronage relationships that have a damaging effect on political systems, economies, and civil society. Since independence, the increasing size of many African cabinets would, following the literature, indicate a growth in political patronage networks. While these networks may increase the...

Continuing and rapid growth of the mature population in Taiwan has forced the restaurant industry to prepare for substantial social and demographic changes. This study used a telephone survey to elicit attributes important to the restaurant patronage behaviors of consumers aged 65 and older who lived independently. The variables examined include a battery of demographic and healthrelated variab...

The paper examined poor reading culture: A barrier to students’ patronage of Selected Secondary School Libraries in Ado Ekiti Local Government Area of Ekiti State. The design for the study is descriptive survey which utilizes questionnaire to collect data. Oral interview was also conducted. Tables and simple percentages were adopted in the data analysis. Results of the analysis show that comput...

The concepts of clientelism and patronage have been widely used in the analysis of political and social relations. In contemporary political science literature, both concepts have increasingly come to denote a particular strategy of gaining political support by individuals or parties through the distribution of individual or collective goods to prospective voters. 1 Although there is some degre...

We use a unique dataset collected from a random sample of schools in Ghana to test the “Patronage” hypothesis, that central government funds are targeted to districts that support the ruling party. We find evidence of patronage targeting to administrative districts, the level of government at which the national budget is allocated. However, there are no significant patronage effects at the parl...

This study suggests that the framework of dynamic patronage coalitions, based on Roker's coalition theory and workings patron-client networks, ran fruitfully be utilized in analyzing African politics, particularly light increasing prevalence state-society approaches need for a comparative referent. The narrowing helps explain frequency coups, secession attempts, exile invasions first decade or ...

This paper empirically investigates the link between political patronage and bank performance for Ukraine during 2003Q3–2005Q2. We find significant differences between politically affiliated and non-affiliated banks. The data suggest that affiliated banks have significantly lower interest rate margins and increase their capitalization. Furthermore, we show that the level of activity of affiliat...

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