A patronage dividend is a refund that a co-operative distributes to its members as a share of the co-op’s profits. Unlike a regular stock dividend, a patronage dividend is not a return on investment.

Technology is changing the landscape for art patronage, according to a new report from TEFAF titled “Art Patronage in the 21st Century.” Today, for as little as $5, people can support all manner of ...

The federal courts of appeals have generally recognized that electric cooperatives can retire patronage capital to their members through means other than annual cash payments. For example, the US ...

As a customer-owned cooperative, Farm Credit Mid-America understands that a little extra capital can make a big difference in a farmer’s operation. In March, the financial services cooperative that ...

Chicago, the patronage capital of the world, gave us the phrase “pinstripe patronage,” meaning government resources bestowed on those more at home in a boardroom than on an assembly line, whose ...

Political patronage—the distribution of jobs, contracts, and emoluments—is often seen as a form of political corruption. However, it was originally popularized in the United States to ensure that the ...

ON the morning of Nov. 5, 1952, the Republican politicians came down out of the hills and gazed hungrily about them in the Valley of Plenty from which Ike Eisenhower had just driven the Democrats.

Human tendencies towards patrimonialism have existed for thousands of years. In hunter-gatherer societies, humans had to establish restricted circles of trust among tribes due to the constant war for ...

A federal judge in Chicago will decide on Monday whether to end the federal monitoring of hiring, firing and promotions in city government to ensure politics is not a part of the process. And I'm ...