... of patronage largesse made possible through rents associated with extraction of natural resources, foreign aid, and foreign investment further strengthened the ruling party, allowing it to project infrastructural power in surveilling and mobilizing voters and in exercising coercion against its challengers...

...Stanislav N. Shkel The article analyzes authoritarian regimes within the post-Soviet territory in terms of informal practices (clannishness, clientelism and patronage) and their characteristics used by political leaders to form a power coalition. It has been argued that any of these informal...

... of California Transition Cambodia Elitism Patronage Democracy Communist/communism Communist and Post-Communist Studies 36 (2003) 245 258 From communism to democracy in Cambodia: a decade of transition and beyond D. Roberts Magee College, University of Ulster, Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK...