Essays about: "patron-client relationships"

Found 5 essays containing the words patron-client relationships.

  1. 1. Servants on Earth : The Death-transcending Social Network of a Saint, as Evidenced by Early Fifteenth-century Swedish Miracle Tales

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Jonas Bengtsson; [2023]
    Keywords : saints; canonization processes; popular religion; medieval Sweden;

    Abstract : The cult of the saints was a widespread and important element of medieval European society. It is also an area of history where historians’ explanations of events are usually very different from those of the historical actors studied. This thesis is an attempt to find some common ground between them. READ MORE

  3. 2. Abkhazia and Russia: A Role Theory Analysis : A Qualitative Study of the Relationship Between a De Facto State and its Patron

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Julia Linderfalk; [2022]
    Keywords : Role theory; Abkhazia; Russia; patron-client relationships; role coherence; passive strategy;

    Abstract : This paper investigates why patron states choose to adopt a passive strategy in relation to de facto states. Pål Kolstø from the University of Oslo has claimed that this strategy is based on the assumption that de facto states have nowhere else to turn. In this thesis, role theory is used to expand this claim. READ MORE

  4. 3. Trust, Inequality and Welfare State Regimes: the cases of Brazil and Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies

    Author : Marina Salomão de Freitas Assunção de Carvalho; [2015]
    Keywords : Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The main purpose of this dissertation is to analyze how the levels of equality and trust influenced the development of different Welfare State Regimes in Brazil and Sweden (see Esping-Andersen 1990). In order to show the relationship between inequality and trust, the dissertation utilizes Jordahl’s (2007) mechanisms which posteriorly will be related to the specific historical contexts of both countries, as well as to the current challenges faced by them. READ MORE

  5. 4. 'The Apple Must Fall Far From the Tree'. A Case Study of an Educational School Intervention in Lyari: An Urban Slum in Pakistan.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies; Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Uzma Osman Bucha; [2014]
    Keywords : inertiatic institutions; bridging social capital; intergenerational contract; patron-client relationships; broker; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Partly attributed to the distinguishing effects of poverty on education and effects of education on poverty, the poverty and education nexus is complex. Since poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon deprivation in education, especially in urban slums, is not caused by one factor alone, but is rather stitched to various other related factors such as family structure, a high conflict neighbourhood and quality of school. READ MORE

  6. 5. WALK! Framing a successful agrarian reform campaign in the Philippines.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Lennart Niemelä; [2010]
    Keywords : Philippines; Sumilao; Agrarian reform; Catholic Church; Framing processes; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Agrarian reform is a long standing issue in the Philippines and has seen a number of peasant uprisings, revolts and rebellions ever since colonial times. In the wake of the Marcos era, the new constitution came with new promises of agrarian reform and set up the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) to implement (re-)distribution of lands. READ MORE