It reinforces a view of Italy as a country in which entrepreneurs need political patronage to succeed.
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.
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.
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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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Agricultural, Church-dominated economies were superseded by new forms of social organization--nascent nation states with central political institutions, urban, commercial economies and lay patronage of intellectual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.
His political base will shrink to those who depend on him for patronage.
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Alberto Alonso Criollo, a political scientist at the local Vasconcelos University, says the old patronage system still works fairly smoothly in a place where the state government is one of the few sources of jobs and money.
But patronage gave way to fund-raising, and the Cabinet position with political clout shifted from postmaster general to commerce secretary.
Either in fear or in hope, many Greeks detect a breakdown of a political system, over a century old, in which two political groups (notionally of the centre-left and the centre-right, but both given to patronage and graft) progressively exhaust the national exchequer by outbidding each other.
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