Capital, Coercion and Crime: Bossism in the Philippines (Contemporary Issues

Description: This text focuses on local bossism, a common political phenomenon where local power brokers achieve monopolistic control over an area s coercive and economic resources. Examples of bossism include Old Corruption in eighteenth-century England, urban political machines in the United States, caciques in Latin America, the Mafia in Southern Italy, and today s gangster politicians in such countries as India, Russia, and Thailand. For many years, the entrenchment of numerous provincial warlords and political clans has made the Philippines a striking case of local bossism. Yet writings on Filipino political culture and patron-client relations have ignored the role of coercion in shaping electoral competition and social relations. Portrayals of a weak state captured by a landed oligarchy have similarly neglected the enduring institutional legacies of American colonial rule and the importance of state resources for the accumulation of wealth and power in the Philippines.

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EAN: 9780804737463

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Book Title: Capital, Coercion and Crime: Bossism in the Philip

Item Length: 23.2 cm

Number of Pages: 248 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Capital, Coercion, and Crime: Bossism in the Philippines

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Publication Year: 1999

Subject: Government

Item Height: 229 mm

Item Weight: 376 g

Type: Textbook

Author: John T. Sidel

Subject Area: Political Science

Series: Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific

Item Width: 152 mm

Format: Paperback