Talk:Neopatrimonialism

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Patron-client link

Clicking on the patron-client link redirects to Political machine, something to do with US 19th. century politics apparantly, but political machine is not the same as patron-client. Patron-client relationship (not in the article) redirects to Clientela in Ancient Rome. Please can we have a proper article about the patron-client relationship that is more general? There is plenty of patron-client relationships in the modern world, a corrupt set-up occurring in both 1st (witnessed it myself), 2nd (very likely), and 3rd. worlds (read and heard about it). Although patron-client is not thought of as corrupt in the arts. 92.29.81.16 (talk) 14:39, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Yoram Gorlizki

Due consideration should be given in the article to characterizations of the Stalin regime after WWII. Yoram Gorlizki called the regime "neopatrimonial" - "patrimonial authority coexisting alongside quite modern and routine forms of high-level decision making." Kjk2.1 (talk)

"This article needs attention from an expert on the subject." seems uneeded

While rather too short and not covering enough of the debates/variations of the "neo-patrimonal" label, this is good article, quoting and citing recognized authorities speaking generally about the subject.

The term is mostly applied to poor nations, most always African nations, and the quoted riposte from Thandika Mkandawire is well chosen. I have never heard it applied to the Soviet Union, but I'm not a Soviet scholar.

You could include Greece as it very accurately describes the situation there. (Iam a resident and a Greek national).

Here's a good critical discussions

• Von Soest, Christian. "What Neopatrimonialism Is? Six Questions to the Concept", German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) http://www.giga-hamburg.de/content/fsp1/pdf/neopat/paper_neopat_workshop_soest.pdf

Or you might read this new survey:

• Daniel Bach, Mamoudou Gazibo (eds). Neopatrimonialism in Africa and Beyond. Routledge (2012)

This can be improved -- I would start with discussion on Jean Francois Bayart's writing and his critics -- but it does not need what is now a misleading "expert attention" hatnote. I am removing it. T L Miles (talk)