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	Cronyism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cronyism is partiality to long-standing friends, especially by appointing them to public office without regard for their qualifications.
		However, there is often no clear line to denote when an appointment constitutes "cronyism." It is not at all unusual for a person of substantial political experience to surround himself with highly qualified individuals and to develop friendships, leading to the appointment of the friends to office or the obtaining of contracts.
		Examples of cronyism can be found in a number of current and former communist states.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cronyism (808 words)

	Crony capitalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Crony capitalism" or "crapitalism" is a pejorative term describing a capitalist economy in which success in business depends on an extremely close relationship between the businessman and the state institutions of politics and government, rather than by the espoused "equitable" concepts of the free market, open competition, and economic liberalism.
		Crony capitalism arises when political cronyism spills over into the world of business, and the relationships between powerful businessmen and powerful politicians form a kind of aristocratic social hierarchy, influenced by self-serving friendships and family ties, to the extent that it corrupts public-serving economic and political ideals.
		Capitalists generally respond that governmental favours are incompatible with true capitalism, that so-called "crony capitalism" is in fact the result of an excess of socialist-style interference in the market, which requires active corporate lobbying to reduce red tape.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crony_capitalism (551 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Cronyism
		In politics, a capital (also called capital city or political capital â€”; although the latter phrase has an alternative meaning based on an alternative meaning of capital) is the principal city or town associated with its government.
		The term authoritarian is used to describe an organization or a state which enforces strong and sometimes oppressive measures against the population, generally without attempts at gaining the consent of the population.
		The concept of Totalitarianism is a typology or ideal-type used by some political scientists to encapsulate the characteristics of a number of twentieth century regimes that mobilized entire populations in support of the state or an ideology.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cronyism (1960 words)

	Cronyism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		This is why democratic governments are encouraged to have transparency in their accounting and contract ing processes.
		No 'Cronyism' in Iraq "The premise of the accusations [of cronyism] is completely contrary to the way government contracting works, both in theory and in practice." By Steven Kelman, former administrator of Office of Federal Procurement Policy.
		Filipino Silent Protesters An association of Filipinos who have decided to express their protest with the alleged cronyism, nepotism and favoritism in the country.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Cronyism.html (199 words)

	Topical Words: Cronyism
		cronyism, a term much used this week in reports of the co-option of a Scottish media magnate, Gus Macdonald, to an unpaid Government post, but with the promise of a seat in the House of Lords.
		Its origins are as vague and undocumented as you might expect, but the informed guess is that it had nothing to do with the much older English word crone for an old woman, but was modelled on the Greek khronios, “long-standing”, derived from the better-known khronos “time”.
		With the change in cronyism, crony was dragged along with it and now also often has this derogatory sense of a friendship with a whiff of political corruption or preferential advancement about it, not just (or not even) the sense of long-standing friends who enjoy each others’ company.
	www.worldwidewords.org /topicalwords/tw-cro1.htm (518 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: New CCSN president faces questions over hiring
		Carpenter said he saw a strong contrast between the cronyism he outlined in his memo, where the "good old boy" network hired and promoted their friends without consideration of their qualifications, and his decision to bring Key to the college.
		Most regents, however, said the complaint against Carpenter was a "red herring" in that the cronyism Carpenter pointed out at the college was deep and corrupt, with several administrators creating jobs for their friends and families.
		Both cronyism and nepotism have a negative sound because they imply that the friend or relative who was hired was not qualified, said Ann McGinley, a law professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Boyd School of Law and an expert in employment law.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/sun/2004/aug/19/517369352.html (829 words)

	Cronyism: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Cronyism is partiality to long standing friends, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Democracy is a form of government under which the power to alter the laws and structures of government lies, ultimately, with the citizenry....
		Logrolling is a colorful phrase used to describe trading of votes by legislative members to obtain passage of actions of interest to each legislative member....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cr/cronyism.htm (434 words)

	OpinionJournal - Extra
		A longtime friend of the president who has served as his close personal and political adviser and confidante, no matter how fine a lawyer, can hardly be expected to be sufficiently independent--especially during the remaining term of her former boss.
		While the Senate once successfully resisted President Lyndon Johnson's attempt to nominate his own highly able crony, Abe Fortas, to be chief justice, perhaps the performance of senators during the Roberts nomination reduced the deterrent effect of "advise and consent." Judiciary Committee Democrats spent half their time making speeches rather than questioning.
		What questions they did ask were not carefully designed to ferret out the nominee's judicial philosophy, favoring instead to inquire about his feelings, or whether he would stand up for the "little guy," or bemoaning his refusal to telegraph how he would rule on particular cases likely to come before the court.
	www.opinionjournal.com /extra?id=110007354 (1040 words)

	Bush Brings Back Cronyism, Nepotism, and Corruption; So Much For Restoring Honor and Integrity To The White House
		"Cronyism" is defined as "the giving of special treatment, preference, jobs, political appointments, or contracts to people who are friends, donors, or political cohorts rather than to people based on their abilities or qualifications.".
		Cronyism is extremely dangerous to our democracy because it invites the people who give the largest political contributions to ask for, and expect, favors in return.
		The George W. Bush administration is the perfect example of cronyism taken to its full extreme, and the numerous destructive results that it produces.
	www.fixco1.com /bushcrony.html (720 words)

	Cronyism Kills
		In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the abhorrent mismanagement of the relief efforts, a lot of attention is being rightfully paid to Mr.
		Cronyism is a term defining how the Bush administration hands out important government posts.
		He makes appointments to life-saving posts based on cronyism, not what is in the best interest of the people he is sworn to protect.
	www.opednews.com /articles/opedne_anthony__050910_cronyism_kills.htm (1715 words)

	Steven Kelman: No 'Cronyism' in Iraq
		The charges of Iraq cronyism encourage the system to revert to wasting time, energy and people on redundant, unnecessary rules to document the nonexistence of a nonproblem.
		If Iraqi contracting fails, it will be because of poorly structured contracts or lack of good contract management -- not because of cronyism in the awarding process.
		By taking the attention of the procurement system away from necessary attention to the structuring and management of contracts, the current exercise in barking up the wrong tree threatens the wise expenditure of taxpayer dollars the critics state they seek to promote.
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /news/opeds/2003/kelman_cronyism_iraq_wp_11003.htm (789 words)

	Report Says Iraq Contracts Reek Of Cronyism
		"There is a stench of political favoritism and cronyism surrounding the contracting process in both Iraq and Afghanistan," said Charles Lewis, executive director of the group, which investigates public service and ethics issues.
		The report said 60 percent of the firms with contracts had employees or board members who served in previous administrations, for members of Congress and at the highest level of the military.
		The report found that 14 of the 70 contractors got work both in Iraq and Afghanistan and that combined these companies gave nearly $23 million in political contributions and 13 of those firms employed former government officials with close ties to agencies and departments.
	www.rense.com /general43/eqru.htm (558 words)

	WEST SHARES BLAME FOR CRONYISM, CORRUPTION
		"Cronyism and corruption exist everywhere -- within and outside financial systems, and governments -- they pertain not only to the South and it would be too painful to discuss recent examples from the North," said Supachai Panitchpakdi, Thailand's deputy prime minister and conference president.
		Sweden's minister for trade Leif Pagrotsky said that neither the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, nor the World Trade Organisation (WTO) had come to grips with the problem of corruption and suggested a programme of regular analysis and exchange of relevant experiences among member states.
		Citibank's special "private banking division" caters purely to hot money diverted by developing country elites and is reported to handle 40,000 such accounts, several of them sizeable fortunes.
	www.twnside.org.sg /title/west.htm (572 words)

	BeldarBlog: A rebuttal to Prof. Barnett's "Cronyism" op-ed re the Miers nomination
		Moreover, the classic meaning of "cronyism" is selecting someone for a position that they're incapable of earning and totally unfit for on their own.
		Barnett and the others who are crying "Cronyism!" are using friendship and trust that's developed through superb service with the President as a disqualifying factor, irrespective of the nominee's other credentials and experience.
		First of all, cronyism is not limited to "selecting someone for a position that they're incapable of earning and totally unfit for on their own." It's showing paritiality to your friends in the workplace, regardless of their qualitifications.
	beldar.blogs.com /beldarblog/2005/10/a_rebuttal_to_p.html (10105 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / Study finds cronyism in Iraq, Afghanistan contracts
		Allegations of cronyism were quickly denied yesterday by government officials and company spokesmen.
		The report, entitled "Windfalls of War," is the result of a six-month review of information collected through 73 requests filed under the Freedom of Information Act and through appeals to the US Agency for International Development, the Department of Defense, and the State Department.
		Jonathan Marshall, a spokesman for Bechtel, the second-largest recipient of postwar contracts, said yesterday that "there was no cronyism involved and no access to civil servants other than under very strictly-controlled federal procedures." As for political contributions, "we are not ashamed of that," he said.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2003/10/31/study_finds_cronyism_in_iraq_afghanistan_contracts (1014 words)

	Supreme Court cronyism. By David Greenberg
		With cries of cronyism greeting the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, the White House is appealing to history—saying, in effect, that there's a long and distinguished tradition of cronyism in Supreme Court appointments.
		Only three years later, when he tried to elevate the justice to chief, did the mostly conservative critics of the Warren Court and its liberal jurisprudence seize on Fortas' continuing contacts with the president as a reason to filibuster his nomination, which they did successfully.
		The Fortas filibuster, in retrospect, was a death knell for cronyism in high-court appointments, at least until this week.
	www.slate.com /id/2127493 (1503 words)

	The Swift Report: White House Appointees May Have 'Crony's' Disease
		The scientists, working in coordination with the Human Genome Project, say that they've finally identified what seems to be the genetic mutation that causes everything from cronyism and corruption to unbridled patronage.
		In recent years, genomics, the study of how genomes orchestrate the flow of information within cells, has taken off, facilitated by bioinformatics, the use of computers to process the huge amount of data that genomics is generating.
		If the new genes 'take,' the cells are restored to their original, ethical state, before the gene began to mutate, causing cronyism, corruption and ethical violations.
	swiftreport.blogs.com /news/2005/09/white_house_app.html (778 words)

	Cronyism and New Labour
		Cronyism is a word recently invented by the Tories so that they can attack Labour for doing what Tories have done since time immemorial: appointing and promoting their mates to positions of power and influence.
		Partly to protect it from allegations of cronyism, the civil service has always been bound by strict rules that top appointments must be advertised, and final selections made by independent boards.
		A relatively recent exception to this rule was established by the arrival of hosts of special advisers, who are appointed on the whim of ministers.
	www.fathercare.org /islab.htm (590 words)

	FEMA Flap Puts Cronyism in the Spotlight \| workforce.com
		The controversy serves as a reminder to check the backgrounds of all employees, regardless of their standing in the company hierarchy.
		When Michael Brown, the former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, resigned his post on September 12, the age-old practice of cronyism--i.e., favoritism shown to an old friend without regard to his or her qualifications--came under the media microscope.
		But when leaders hire on the basis of cronyism regardless of qualification, “the message the leader sends is one of exclusion, insecurity and payoffs.
	www.workforceonline.com /section/00/article/24/17/61.html (652 words)

	Asiaweek.com \| In Defense Of Cronyism \| 10/5/2001
		Cronyism is rooted in an age-old tradition: getting things done through relationships.
		This is hardly unique to Asia, but it is perhaps most pronounced in this part of the globe, where the importance of family and kinship, along with the historical weakness of the rule of law, has given rise to the widespread practice of using connections to achieve one's goals.
		But in a sense, cronyism is recognition of the fact that we are not self-sufficient, self-contained islands, but social animals dependent on one another.
	www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/magazine/threesixty/0,8782,176567,00.html (948 words)

	The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) Blog: Cronyism
		With the Darleen Druyun scandal still only a recent memory, the revolving door between industry and the Pentagon should be a cause for concern.
		Brown (or "Brownie" as Bush refers to him) was the incompetent crony ex-Arabian horse judge in charge of FEMA during the Katrina disaster.
		While it's too early to tell if the label "Mike Brown" will become a permanent fixture in the English language, it's definitely been in vogue in the last month to describe inexperienced political appointees in the Bush administration with the disgraced former FEMA director's name.
	pogoblog.typepad.com /pogo/cronyism (2259 words)

	Althouse: Miers + cronyism.
		A one term city council member, president of state and local bar association, head of Texas lottery, and white house counsel isn't exactly how one would describe a well-qualified supreme court nominee.
		The beauty of this nomination is that although she reeks of cronyism - a fellow Texan w/o judge experience who ran the local lottery (Arabian Horse Association, anyone?) -- is still just qualified enough for Bush to serve her up as a nominee.
		One may conjecture that he's actually offering up a sacrificial lamb -- and either he'll get his way (and she'll be confirmed) or the Dems will be forced to skewer a woman (and risk looking like sexist obstructionists).
	althouse.blogspot.com /2005/10/miers-cronyism.html (616 words)

	Cronyism and Nepotism in Washington State Government
		Cronyism and nepotism is the normal way that most people get their jobs and get promoted.
		I believe this cronyism and nepotism is common throughout Washington State government.
		The Olympia Washington Kiwanis members and their friends have cost the Washington State taxpayers over $50 million dollars (so far), because of their willful ignorance of long term, merciless and well known, child abuse that occurred at the Olympia Kiwanis Boys Ranch.
	www.lbloom.net /okonhha294.html (1202 words)

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