Patrimonial elites extend control through fictive kinship and patronage networks
Evidence
In early modern Europe, and certainly in the postcolonial Third World, these tend generally to parade one or another sort of patrimonialism, entailing more or less elaborate and confining relations of patronage, and often depending upon the symbolism, if not the reality, of kinship: godfatherhoods, brotherhoods, fictive ‘families’ of all kinds. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1594
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Defines the institutional form of elite self-enforcement — patronal ties as observable constraints substituting for genuine trust.
Related
- Patrimonial rule relies on symbolic kinship and patronage networks (similarity 0.91)
- Royal mistresses governed states indirectly by using lovers as instruments (similarity 0.79)