Pork barrel politics is the practice of an elected official leveraging their vote to gain valuable concessions in exchange for political support. This might include securing valuable government contracts or infrastructure projects for their constituents. It's not necessarily illegal but pork bar...
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Because museums were closed for an extended amount of time to the public in 2020, they had to get creative on how to engage their followers and patrons. The Getty Museum took advantage of the stay-at-home orders, often considering their patronage of families in need of things to do. They...
Most of the classic Chinese encyclopaedias owe their existence to the patronage of emperors. In the West the Roman scholarPlinydedicated hisHistoria naturalis(“Natural History”) to the emperorTitus, and Julius Pollux dedicated hisOnomastikonto his former pupil, the Roman emperorCommodus. The Byzanti...
It is not pejorative, and studies suggest that it does not have a consistent political valence. Both liberal and conservative judges may be activist in this sense, though conservative judges have been more likely to invalidate federal laws and liberals more likely to strike down those of the ...
Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage. — Mary McCarthy 13 Power is either vested in kings or it inevitably ends up with ...
Cultural interchange and patronage was interrupted by problems of social and political urgency, though most artists tended to be antiwar. Visual propaganda was left to the commercial designers and illustrators, while American painters continued in their efforts to consolidate the issues detonated by the...
True power in the Democratic machine rested not with aldermen but with the committeemen, party officers who led the ward organizations and dispensed the patronage jobs that went with them. The Murder Chicago Didn’t Want to Solve | by Mick Dumke | February 25, 2021 | ProPublica Michigan Rep...
In 19th-century Europe, civil service appointment and promotion frequently depended on personal or political favor. Dependency on a superior’s favor led civil servants to ally themselves with liberal public opinion, which was critical of the waste and corruption involved in political patronage. Press...