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Why do we worship, admire, and moreover obey those who pay the costly prise of our uncertain involvements? What do clients offer in return to patrons? Do patrons really protect us, or is it a sheer coincidence of evidences, that shape the traditional structures of this invisible exchange? Phenomenology could be a dubious muse. But it looks like she is the first to visit our restless minds in search of truths. One thing looks sure —our human existence roots, feeds (and even gets corrupted), in some exhaustive framework of patron client involvement. Patronages mould our societal environment. They also influence us through some“soft patrimonialism”, without which we consider ourselves deprived, or even lost. Friendships and patronages are part of our Alter Ego. We usually have less to add to a”dynamic equilibrium”of mutually shared (or disturbed) reciprocity.
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(2008). Rethinking Patronages (Towards the Phenomenology of Patron Client Relations). In: Corruptive Patterns of Patronage in South East Europe. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91417-6_2
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