Patronage, moral regulation and the recruitment of Indian Affairs personnel: 1879-1900.

From: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology | Date: May 1, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

Using the case of the expansion of the Department of Indian Affairs during the last two decades of the 19th century, this paper analyses the relationship between political patronage and moral regulation in the process of state formation. Both political patronage and the moral regulation project played central roles in determining who was appointed to positions in the Department. However, the practice of appointing personnel on the basis of their political, family or religious connections was at times antithetical to the moral regulation project of the Department of Indian Affairs. One's ...

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