Patrimonialstaat
English translation: patrimonial state
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peer agreement (net): +4patrimonial state Explanation: According to Muret-Sanders -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2003-03-25 16:27:39 (GMT) -------------------------------------------------- In fact, one aspect of Russia\'s culture--what scholars such as Richard Pipes and Max Weber have called patrimonialism--has ensured that its post-Soviet political and economic transformation would be especially difficult. According to Pipes\'s definition, the sovereign of a patrimonial state views himself as both the ruler of the country and its proprietor. Political authority is seen as an extension of the rights of property ownership, with both land and people at the sovereign\'s disposal. Citizens are assigned duties but have no rights. By contrast, \"the existence of private property as a realm over which public authority normally exercises no jurisdiction is the thing that distinguishes Western political experience from all the rest,\" Pipes argues. In pre-1917 Russia, the tsar \"owned\" the nation, its vast resources, and its citizens. The state concentrated in its hands the most profitable branches of commerce and industry and gave favored parts of the nobility economic privileges in exchange for their support. The civil service practiced a byproduct of patrimonialism whereby responsibility for administering lands and collecting taxes was handed over to civil servants, who, in exchange, were allowed to keep a portion of what they collected. This practice fostered corruption, which became part and parcel of public administration. Although some aspects of patrimonialism weakened or disappeared in late tsarist Russia, the consequences for the growth of democracy in Russia were severe: a small middle class, weak state institutions, and underdeveloped rule of law. http://www.amber.ucsf.edu/~ross/russia_/pat.txt |
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