This trade war may divide and dispirit Republicans in key districts, but as has often been the case with this presidency, those formerly "blue wall" states that went his way two years ago – Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania – are first at the trough for the spoils of office.
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Bernard Manyenyeni, the mayor of Harare from the opposition MDC, worries that the post-Mugabe era could be shaped by a sense of "entitlement" among Mr Mugabe's longtime cronies, who may want to grab an even larger share of the spoils of office than they have hitherto enjoyed.
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Patrons were essential, and he found two terrific ones: the wily old Thurlow Weed, known as the "dictator" of, first, New York State's Whigs and then of its Republicans, a man whose smooth continuity derived from his sense that the spoils of office were more basic to politics than any position on the issues; and Edwin Morgan, a good-looking big businessman whom Weed made governor in 1858.
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This was to remain a characteristic of Lao politics. Various transient political parties came and went, but the same 20-odd families alternated in office, feuding with each other over the spoils of office.
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Mirroring the widening of social divisions across Indonesia in the 1950s and early 1960s, the island of Bali saw conflict between supporters of the traditional Balinese caste system, and those rejecting these traditional values, particularly the PKI. Communists were publicly accused of working towards the destruction of the island's culture, religion, and character, and the Balinese, like the Javanese, were urged to destroy the PKI. Government jobs, funds, business advantage and other spoils of office had gone to the Communists during the final years of Sukarno's presidency.Taylor (2003), p.
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During the British occupation, the Shi'ites and Kurds fought for independence. Faced with spiralling costs and influenced by the public protestations of war hero T. E. Lawrence in The Times, Britain replaced Arnold Wilson in October 1920 with new Civil Commissioner Sir Percy Cox. Cox managed to quell the rebellion, yet was also responsible for implementing the fateful policy of close cooperation with Iraq's Sunni minority."Sunni control over the levels of power and the distribution of the spoils of office has had predictable consequences- a simmering resentment on the part of the Shi'a..." Anderson & Stansfield “The Future of Iraq: Dictatorship, Democracy or Division?”, page 6.
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The SDF and its allies in the Union for Change remain critical of Biya but are also critical of France, which they call an "accomplice of those in power." However, in 2000 the alliance reportedly was falling apart as the SDF sought to distance itself from the Southern Cameroon National Council (SCNC). The SCNC apparently was accusing the SDF of delaying independence for the northwest and southwest English-speaking provinces by refusing to force its English-speaking members of parliament to resign from the Francophone-dominated National Assembly. Moreover, some members of the opposition wanted their party leaders to join Biya's coalition government so they could share the spoils of office.
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