He has constructed a patronage network in the party to withstand such knocks.

Fundamentally, corruption formed an important component of the patronage network, facilitating elite accumulation.

Patronage networks still affect political and social culture and are important in people's everyday lives.

Of even greater significance, economic globalization has sharply increased the cost of conducting politics, so that rulers and aspirants must pay much more for maintaining patronage networks and contesting elections.

The term clan today usually refers to patronage networks created by marriage or friendship.

Political patronage in appointments confers honour, not wisdom, on those ennobled.

Over the years this widespread embezzlement has been used for political patronage.

They support a series of running repairs that would sever traditions, pension off colleagues and rob prime ministers of political patronage.

Since when was insanity a bar to political patronage?

An appointed chamber, free from political patronage, would safeguard independence.

Maybe it had something to do with a touch of royal patronage.

The couple said, however, that they wanted to support causes that had so far not enjoyed royal patronage.

The station's royal patronage led to the addition of little luxuries such as a private oak-panelled waiting room.

The programme has had royal patronage.

You can't be patrons of charities and not give them a lot of your time, they depend on royal patronage for their funding and their donations.