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Siegel argues that funds from the federal Community Action Program, a neighborhood-based anti-poverty program, were used to buy peace from the black militants, allowing them to develop their own neighborhood-based patronage networks.
Would Michelangelo have been great without the patronage of the Medicis or the competitive edge induced by Leonardo?
Party entrepreneurs were often newspaper editors and postmasters, and postmasterships quickly became a staple of party patronage.
Naturally, Portugal got something out of it--a lowering of import tariffs on its products and some royal patronage.
However, his undemocratic attitude and predilection for political patronage are seen by many Palestinians as the ultimate root of the malfeasance.