"It's a patron-client relationship rather than a relationship between equals," said Mr. Chellaney.

It is an informal patron-client relationship that can reach from very high up in state structures down to individuals in say, small villages.

Further, Jardine argues that at "least in the court context, the model of stable, salary-based patron-client relationships is inappropriate.

The Bushong have a patron-client relationship with the Kasai Twa.

Aside from patron-client relationships, one could use family connections to secure office.

They understood that; the patron-client relationship was less formal in Videssos than in Rome, but no less real.

Romulus thereby inaugurates a system of government and social hierarchy based on the patron-client relationship.

When promotion occurred, it was based on seniority, political rectitude, or a patron-client relationship.

The temptation to indulge in bribery indicates that the traditional patron-client relationship was insufficient to gather enough votes to win election.

The narrative frame of this poem is a dinner party where many potential dysfunctions in the ideal of the patron-client relationship are put on display.