Name Course Code Instructor Date Introduction Political patronage has been of the things that have made the human race surfer injustice because those in power want to remain holding on the power and those without power want to get it. The world today is experiencing instability as far as peace is concerned because of politics. While many people thought that having some political systems would eliminate the world problems, the situation has become even worse especially where people have thought democracy world deliver political nirvana. While it was common believe that having a solitary party governing was responsible for poor; leadership, democracy has proved to be even more archaic. Democracy has encouraged the patronage such that marshalling of resources is the biggest objective of the political class such that those with numbers whether real or imaginary are the major determinant of even outside funding. All governments would always claim to have the interests of the citizens at hand, and usually, such claims are taken serious by many common people who belief in what the government says, however when they realize that the government is not living to its pledge, disappointment sets in and this in turn creates some sort of personal Vendetta between the citizens and the government. Perhaps this can be explained by the many revolts that are being experienced in these generations. When governments fail to provide what is believed to the rights of the citizens, the citizens take it upon themselves to fight for the perceived rights. The government in most cases also decides to fight back, things then degenerates and movies from ideas to personal vendettas (Peter 45-40). Based on the facts form the book V vendetta, we realize that the government would always try to test the ability of its citizens to handle “disasters” in response to this, the people end up fighting back and this causes revolutions and other things like strikes. Democracy and political Patronage Political patronage determines the functions of all the economic aspects of the people both locally and international (Donna 23-20). Locally, the government is likely to avoid allocating resources to part of the nation where people are perceived to be supportive of the part that is not ruling at that time, this means that economic decisions become tied to the kind of politics that people play. In places where democracy is still new, the political parties which are in power decide how much development is done to what area, this means that those areas whose votes did not go the current leadership would lose out. Internationally, foreign aid has been one of the major contentions when it comes to democracy because there has been a feeling that governments would only fund those countries which subscribe to their line of thinking as far as democracy is concerned. The fact that this kind of patronage is believed to exist has made many people question the objectives of funding programs.

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Course Code
Instructor
Date
Introduction
Political patronage has been of the things that have made the
human race surfer injustice because those in power want to
remain holding on the power and those without power want to
get it. The world today is experiencing instability as far as
peace is concerned because of politics. While many people
thought that having some political systems would eliminate the
world problems, the situation has become even worse especially
where people have thought democracy world deliver political
nirvana. While it was common believe that having a solitary
party governing was responsible for poor; leadership,
democracy has proved to be even more archaic. Democracy has
encouraged the patronage such that marshalling of resources is
the biggest objective of the political class such that those with
numbers whether real or imaginary are the major determinant of
even outside funding.
All governments would always claim to have the interests of the
citizens at hand, and usually, such claims are taken serious by
many common people who belief in what the government says,
however when they realize that the government is not living to
its pledge, disappointment sets in and this in turn creates some
sort of personal Vendetta between the citizens and the
government. Perhaps this can be explained by the many revolts
that are being experienced in these generations. When

2. governments fail to provide what is believed to the rights of the
citizens, the citizens take it upon themselves to fight for the
perceived rights. The government in most cases also decides to
fight back, things then degenerates and movies from ideas to
personal vendettas (Peter 45-40). Based on the facts form the
book V vendetta, we realize that the government would always
try to test the ability of its citizens to handle “disasters” in
response to this, the people end up fighting back and this causes
revolutions and other things like strikes.
Democracy and political Patronage
Political patronage determines the functions of all the economic
aspects of the people both locally and international (Donna 23-
20). Locally, the government is likely to avoid allocating
resources to part of the nation where people are perceived to be
supportive of the part that is not ruling at that time, this means
that economic decisions become tied to the kind of politics that
people play. In places where democracy is still new, the
political parties which are in power decide how much
development is done to what area, this means that those areas
whose votes did not go the current leadership would lose out.
Internationally, foreign aid has been one of the major
contentions when it comes to democracy because there has been
a feeling that governments would only fund those countries
which subscribe to their line of thinking as far as democracy is
concerned. The fact that this kind of patronage is believed to
exist has made many people question the objectives of funding
programs in some countries and not in others. If it is true that
such countries support, democracy, why should they then fail to
support those entities that go against them? We have been
experiencing situations whereby some foreign powers especially
from the western world fail to provide even humanitarian
assistance to some countries because to them such countries
have failed to enhance the democratic rights of their people.

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Democratic reforms is currently one of the main objectives of
aid programs, such programs are usually meant to support health
or even economic empowerment of the recipient nation,
however the problem is the conditions that are usually attached
to such aids. Conventionally, democracy should be concerned
with people making their own choices without interference,
coercion or any form of conditioning, the situation here is
however different because the aid providers have apparently set
rules which should be followed when implementing the
democracy, this means that the end product is not the
democracy as the people would wish but rather it would be
imposed by the foreign powers, therefore, qualified to be called
democracy.
Technically, we can never say that true democracy exists
because if a country is not able to fulfill what the powerful
nation wants, then it loses out; this is the kind of political
patronage that has been caused the so-called democratization
process. It is because of the political patronage that citizens of
many nations continue to suffer because someone else makes
the decisions on their behalf and most of the time; these
decision makers rarely have any idea of what is required.
Normally, democracy should be a question of ideology because
that is what it is, however patronage has made to look like aid is
a key determinant. Some people may argue that the concept of
political reforms has been the idea of citizens, but this is not
true because reforms are driven by people with their own
agendas which are rarely understood by the people because most
of them are driven by foreign aid, what this means is that there
are countries which have been forced to make some reforms due
to pressure from external governments who blackmail them with
aid.
Democracy: The more things change, the more they remain the

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The fact that most of these governments manage to manage in
making decisions for the citizens do not always end up
succeeding in sustaining them because eventually, the people
become tired and some of them cause rebellions. Some of the
rebellions lack clear objectives because their only focus is
usually to remove the present government after which things go
back to confusion because the same people would start fighting
themselves. It again beats logic to fight someone and afterwards
start fighting among them. While in the V for Vendetta the
rebellions are planned indirectly, the current generations seem
to be taken everything by the horns. The reason democracy is
usually glorified is because many people think that when it
finally arrives, all the problems would end. The question then
becomes, does democracy eliminate the problems that are
caused by authoritarian leaderships.
The fact that democracy is all about self-preservation of groups
and individuals means that nothing changes, actually even the
democracy itself is born out of authoritarianism. If strong
nations force week ones to take decisions that suit the rich
nations, where is democracy in this? If the citizens are forced
by leadership to vote in a certain way for them to benefit, is that
democracy? A critical look at these would show that it is all
about political patronage that has nothing to do without helping
people to be free from authoritarian leadership. The main theme
in the V for Vendetta is that when people feel that the
government is being hard on them, then they can react by
causing rebellions, by being so open about it or they can do it
through hiding through other things.
According to the book, the problems that are experienced by
citizens usually come from the fact that the government is
authoritarian. The citizens when they realize that the need to be
liberated then would fight the government that would react by

5. either granting the wish of the people or not. Most of the time,
the government would grant the wishes of the people at least
after it has been forced by donors. The government allows, on
the terms because the government would lose out if it fails to do
some political reforms, the citizens become happy that they
have had their way, which is most of the time not true because
the government would eventually use the funds to patronize the
democracy and therefore it becomes real that the more things
change, the more they remain the same.
In the ideal world, the objectives of funding for political
reforms should be to empower the government and subsequently
the people assuming that there is real democracy, however there
is nothing like democracy as each part focuses on how to use
the funds to control the other parties. The failure of political
systems in sustaining democracy has been responsible for the
ever unending fighting for democracy.
Conclusion
Liberty has been one of the most known selling point for the
countries that boast of a mature democracy, however how much
of these do ordinary people enjoy? Is liberty about erecting
monuments and proclaiming the words as well as quoting the
constitution? There are many people who feel that it is not yet
democracy because there is too much patronage whereby one
right gives a certain right and another one takes it away (Vande
112-98). There is a direct relationship between democracy and
liberty, form common knowledge, liberty is doing what one
pleases because of free expression, but does the law forbid
people from doing something and uttering some words? It can,
therefore, be said that democracy and liberty and just situations
which have been created to be used by those in power to control
the masses.
Work cited

6. Vande Walle. The political patronage and its role in democracy:
London: Macmillan, 2001. Print
Donna, Kelley. The economic development and democracies.
Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1999.Print
Peter, Jones. The world
democracies.Nairobi:Longman.2000.Print
James, Harun. Why politicians never change. London:
Macmillan, 1996.Print
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