patrimonial

In 1921, German sociologist Max Weber wrote: “The patrimonial office lacks above all the bureaucratic separation of the ‘private’ and the ‘official’ sphere.

The book is largely based on previous work, including a characterization of Russian autocracy as “patrimonial” — the state as the personal domain of the czar — most closely associated with the historian Richard Pipes.

“Whereas in the West, illicit exchanges of favors are seen as reprehensible, in Russia, as a patrimonial state, they are an intrinsic part of the system without which it could not function,” Short writes.

Griset, 68, was summoned in court on Tuesday for "incomplete or false declaration of his patrimonial situation" and of "his interests".

We are, Piketty suggested, returning to the kind of dynastic, “patrimonial” capitalism that prevailed in the late 19th century.