| 释义 |
clientism, n. Polit. and Sociol.
Brit. |ˈklʌɪəntɪz(ə)m|, U.S. |ˈklaɪən(t)ˌɪz(ə)m|
[‹ client n. + -ism suffix.]
1. A social, administrative, or political system which depends upon relationships of patronage; = clientelism n.
1799S. T. Coleridge in Morning Post 7 Dec. in Ess. on his Times (1978) I. 34 We dismiss the fear of bribery and clientism. 1965R. Bolling House out of Order vii. 151 Unlike Members of the Senate, relatively few House Members are beneficiaries of the ‘client’ system. In any event, clientism is a disservice to the Congress and the American people. 1988Times 22 Mar. 10 The three pillars of the [Christian Democratic] party—Catholicism, clientism (jobs for the boys) and anti-communism are looking shaky. 1998Daily Tel. 24 Feb. 21/2 Such clientism should have gone out with the Georgians.
2. The political patronage by a relatively powerful or influential nation (esp. the U.S.) of another less powerful one, its ‘client’ state; the relationship between such nations.
1973R. Morris in Washington Monthly Nov. (title) Rooting for the other team: clientism in the Foreign Service. 1982H. Kissinger Years Upheaval x. 445 Foreign Service Officers had a tendency to seek to balance it [sc. the isolationist tradition] by becoming spokesmen for the countries in which they were stationed or for which they were given responsibility... This is referred to as..‘localitis’, or ‘clientism’. 1992New Yorker 24 Aug. 63/2 There was the danger that if Germany broke ranks, and recognized Croatia and Slovenia, France would react by renewing its tie with Serbia, and the prospect of such ‘clientism’..was virtually unthinkable. |