Essays about: "Patron-Client"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the word Patron-Client.

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. Modern Patronage and Development in Cambodia: Historical Foundations, Modern Re-Articulations, and the Contemporary Quest for Political Legitimacy

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

   Author : Markus Petersson; [2017]
   Keywords : Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Cambodia´s complicated political landscape has created a development context that the international community long struggled to navigate. In this paper I – through a theoretical framework that conceptualises a political context as a historically located totality and defines the quest for political legitimacy as a constraint that can be used to make inferences about the behaviour and actions preferred by the ruling elite – explore how development endeavours can learn to work better within Cambodia´s political landscape. READ MORE

5. 4. A Post-Mortem Analysis of China’s Township Elections

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

   Author : Patrik Andersson; [2016]
   Keywords : China; Township elections; Rational Choice Institutionalism; Principal-Agent model; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Since the late 1990s county party committees in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have experimented with semi-competitive township elections. The central government in Beijing encouraged such initiatives, hoping to use township elections to restrict the power of the county party secretary in appointing township leaders. READ MORE

6. 5. Politics, Patronage and the Persistence of the Ruling Elite in post-UNTAC Cambodia

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Markus Petersson; [2015]
   Keywords : Ruling Elite; Forces; Patronage; Politics; Cambodia; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Cambodia’s ruling elite has now remained in power for over 30 years. Today, many scholars believe that this could be attributed to a set of complex and context-specific patron-client relations that intertwines to form the patronage structures that underpin the political system. READ MORE