Power arrangements may involve the state as a power broker or major actor.
He was the nation's power broker and in his time the richest person in the kingdom.
Further, the nation-state's power has diminished shrinking politicians to minority power broker status.
Local power brokers may equally be able to hold the government to ransom.
To sustain these strikes, workers had to persuade and cajole, manipulate and coerce to their side, the sundry patrons and power brokers of the neighbourhood.
No parliamentary candidate could hope to secure election without striking favourable bargains with a host of power brokers operating at every level in his constituency.
Neo-patrimonial rule is furthermore facilitated by a number of influential power brokers who act mainly behind the scenes.
These managers became power brokers, courted by vanilla merchants and timber companies.
