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Hoerl, Alexandra. ""The Usefulness of Patronage: Reading Cicero against Aristotle?"" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-09 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p211562_index.html>

Hoerl, A. E. , 2007-08-30 ""The Usefulness of Patronage: Reading Cicero against Aristotle?"" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2011-06-09 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p211562_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: This paper argues that political theorists should examine the structure of the patron-client relationship and what it can contribute to a notion of praxis. While most theorists who are concerned with issues of friendship and community association focus on an ideal of Aristotelian beneficence (from the Nicomachean Ethics), I argue that the related Ciceronian concepts of patronage and liberality�as articulated in De Officiis�are also useful for political practice. While Aristotelian notions are interesting from an ethical perspective, Ciceronian and Roman notions are more structured and thus easier to adapt to the practicalities of political life. We can think of this as a divide between the performance of offices, which involves material structure, and the performance of duty, which, particularly in its more modern and Kantian context, is more nebulous and difficult to define and implement. I suggest that patronage can be used to develop a web of relationships in contemporary civil society that have the unique advantage of being mobile and individualized, as opposed to group-based and rooted in the soil, like many communitarian notions of association. These qualities make patronage relationships an interesting addition to a classical liberal framework.

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