What a weird topic for RR 
I'll answer something properly for once, in political science for dummies form
*puts on geek hat*
Definition of terms:
Patronage - Derived from the latin term patronus, it means defender or protector. In Philippine politics, it takes on a new meaning, as the distribution of political favors or positions (from someone higher up) in exchange for support of people in the civil service. At the grassroots level, it can include vote buying through a system similar to feudalism.
Feudalism - A system in which vassals acknowledged and fought for a lord in return for protection for themselves and their land tenure. It is still rampant in the provinces, though it isn't officially acknowledged.
Rent-seeking - The act of seeking to capitalize on the economic scarcity of a good or service. Governments can artificially create scarcity by giving the right to supply a certain factor of production (such as rice) to specific groups/families/companies. It is normal for individuals to spend huge sums of money to make sure they secure monopolies/oligopolies.
Possible methods of analysis:
Realism - A group-centric method of political analysis where the key group is the state (ex: tribes, city states, empires) and the basis for analysis is state power (military, financial). Models tend to describe the state as a unitary rational actor operating under conditions of uncertainty and imperfect information. Closely related to its method is the theory of rational choice which treats the individual as the basic unit of analysis and attempts of predict how the individual would react if he/she acted rationally under given conditions.
Idealism - Any behavior shaped by the pursuit of an unattainable objective such as equality or justice, or by principles such as "public service". This is because public servants are still rational beings by nature and are thus still satisfying their own desires by "serving the public".
I'll answer something properly for once, in political science for dummies form
*puts on geek hat*
Definition of terms:
Patronage - Derived from the latin term patronus, it means defender or protector. In Philippine politics, it takes on a new meaning, as the distribution of political favors or positions (from someone higher up) in exchange for support of people in the civil service. At the grassroots level, it can include vote buying through a system similar to feudalism.
Feudalism - A system in which vassals acknowledged and fought for a lord in return for protection for themselves and their land tenure. It is still rampant in the provinces, though it isn't officially acknowledged.
Rent-seeking - The act of seeking to capitalize on the economic scarcity of a good or service. Governments can artificially create scarcity by giving the right to supply a certain factor of production (such as rice) to specific groups/families/companies. It is normal for individuals to spend huge sums of money to make sure they secure monopolies/oligopolies.
Possible methods of analysis:
Realism - A group-centric method of political analysis where the key group is the state (ex: tribes, city states, empires) and the basis for analysis is state power (military, financial). Models tend to describe the state as a unitary rational actor operating under conditions of uncertainty and imperfect information. Closely related to its method is the theory of rational choice which treats the individual as the basic unit of analysis and attempts of predict how the individual would react if he/she acted rationally under given conditions.
Idealism - Any behavior shaped by the pursuit of an unattainable objective such as equality or justice, or by principles such as "public service". This is because public servants are still rational beings by nature and are thus still satisfying their own desires by "serving the public".
