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Патримониализм. Что стоит за этим термином: идеальный тип, категория, понятие или просто жужжалка?
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The terms patrimonialism and neo-patrimonialism are significantly different conceptual
instruments. They are used to identify and interpret a range of phenomena. Using as a
point of departure Weberian types of partimonial rule the author reconstructs the prototype
of patrimonial order. Its key element is an inherent insight of mutual patrimony
or patrimonium. It is both instrumental and essential common good that helps to keep
together not only the rulers and the ruled but the entire patrimonial order. This and
other morphological pattern of order are nothing but ‘blueprints’ for making conflicting
desires of order come actual and real. Historical achievements and current practices
provide a range of patrimonial hybrids and admixtures to political setups of all kinds.
All those arrangements can be interpreted as metamorphoses of the prototype patrimonial
order. The author particularly highlights the tripled knot of patrimonialism,
bureaucracy and modernity in the current political practices. Conceptually coherent
analysis of both functions and dysfunctions of patrimonialism helps to see the potential
of patrimonial patterns of order in the ongoing political process. Insufficient and
blurred conceptualization of patrimonialism let its dysfunctions