It reinforces a view of Italy as a country in which entrepreneurs need political patronage to succeed.
Only indirect subsidies, creative accounting, political patronage and national chest-thumping keep them rolling.
The House of Lords is a living testament to royal bastardy, robber baronry, social exclusion, political patronage and downright cronyism.
Another, more surprising, is the spread of liberal economic views in a society hitherto used to doing business through cartels and political patronage.
Sharif also relied on old-style Pakistani politics, which focuses on doling out political patronage, such as government jobs, to win the loyalty of voters.
"It requires some courage, ignorance, or political patronage or a combination of all three to stop a chief justice from travelling, " Mr Mutunga added.
In the process, some political patronage percolated down to the villages.
Production decisions in government-owned factories had more to do with political patronage (part of the guardian syndrome) than economic efficiency, and the result was economic stagnation.
But Mr Ozawa's chances are bolstered by his following among loyal DPJ parliamentarians, most of whom have benefited from his political patronage as well as his personal nurturing.
In reality the bulk of the money goes on what amounts to political patronage, be it to special interest groups like farmers, aid to southern European countries or what could easily be seem as cronies.
On the left, suspicion of capitalism has remained rife, trade union powers have been maintained more successfully than in Germany or even France, and the use of political patronage to build power networks and reward supporters has helped destroy meritocracy.
If the Spanish political elite - both main parties were implicated in the mismanagement of the cajas - thinks it can get away with things as normal, covering up the shocking collapse of a bank built on political patronage, then the Germans intend the Greek example to be a salutary lesson.
They organize the grassroots political base through a patronage system to maximize the raw power of their Democrat political cause.
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On the one hand, it appears that he genuinely believes in democratising his party - political power and patronage in the Congress has traditionally flowed from the top, thus thwarting the organic growth of strong local leaders and weakening the party in key states like Uttar Pradesh.
Despite this week's violence, the party seemed keen to stay in government and uphold the tradition whereby patronage and political responsibility are shared out amicably.
It is common knowledge that political parties use their patronage of jobs in the customs service to ensure a flow of cash into party coffers.
It will inevitably involve an extensive political machine for control, but also patronage and spoils distribution at all levels, an emasculated civil society and a pervasive political police not only enforcing Putin's will, but also participating directly in political and economic life.
Chinese authorities often attack political figures by dismantling their patronage networks (see next story).
This makes political leaders a huge source of patronage, in the form of business contracts, social benefits, jobs and tax breaks.
Other than a few political appointments mainly there to dispense patronage like feudal lords, the bureaucracy remains long after any given president comes and goes.
At home, through patronage, repression of political opponents, introduction of Islamic laws, and incitement against the West, these democratically elected regimes have been moving their people further and further away from secularism.
In the newly created Southern Philippines Council for Peace and Development, Misuari must ensure that fellow members of the Moro National Liberation Front do not get consumed by the corruption and patronage that is endemic to the political system.
Using this power of patronage, the loggers have acquired great political power in the region.
Behind Lebanon's veneer of sophistication, half a dozen political dynasties still dominate the scene, doling out patronage and divvying up concessions.
Agricultural, Church-dominated economies were superseded by new forms of social organization--nascent nation states with central political institutions, urban, commercial economies and lay patronage of intellectual and cultural life.
EU's new Nordic members are far less inclined than the Mediterraneans are or were to see high political office as a chance to dole out the patronage and delegate the detailed stuff.
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" Santiago, who has links with the political opposition, blames UMNO's "practice of patronage" for weakening the Malay entrepreneurial spirit, "by providing everything to a select group of businessmen who are known not as bumiputras but as UMNO-putras.
Analysts, however, remain skeptical, citing corruption and patronage networks that they say enjoy a degree of political protection.
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