It is necessary to distinguish between patron-clientage and asymmetrical relation of a specifically political kind-relationships that are the foundation of representative or electoral clientelism (clapham 1982: 22-25). The type of patronage to which political scientists refer when discussing political relations is often dispensed outside of the context of patron-client relationships. In general, such relationships are instrumental, short-term, without any personal component and may be mediated only by a cash transaction. Some of th