Nathan Gilbert Quimpo."The Left,Elections,andthe Political Party System in the Philippines". CriticalAsian Studies . 2005Quimpo, Nathan Gilbert. 2005. The Left, Elections, and the Political Party System in the Philippines. Critical Asian Studies 37(1): 3-28....
Previous literature on Philippine politics has failed even to pose these questions because of the emphasis on socioeconomic structure, social cleavage, or electoral institutions which tend to stress domestic structural factors and continuity of the politics.This paper focuses on how the political ...
Introduction: Enterprise and State in the Italian "Economic Miracle" Italy has been notorious for its political instability, inflation, massive public debt, and clientelism. Its political and economic institutions are often derided and labeled dysfunctional. Yet, in historical perspective, the country ha...
Several definitions of institutions have been proposed in the existing literature but few of them have been quantified into synthetic measures of institutions. In the seminal contribution, North (1991) originally defined institutions as “humanly devised constraints that structure political, economic and s...
Keywords: bureaucracy; political institutions; insulation; patronage; competence; rent extraction 1 Introduction The question of what determines effective government is central to development economics and political economy. Some progress has been made in the study of certain political institutions but there...
Democratization and political corruption in the Philippines and South Korea: A comparative analysis Bureaucratic corruption and the crisis of political reforms in Africa: Constraints to Democratization in AfricaCorruption in Africa makes a significant contribution to the study of the impacts and eradication...
Are policies pre-determined by political institutions? The recently passed economic partnership agreement between Japan and the Philippines (JPEPA) was fought fiercely between supporters such as the government, business and academe and the opposition composed of civil society, academe and other interest ...
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For example, China and Vietnam pursued for many years a Soviet-like path of the planned economy, while others like South Korea, Philippines and Indonesia have followed a vigorously capitalist economic model. Even so, the business group structure as well as the key role of the state in ...
Its main thesis is the centrality of political leadership in addressing this concern. The political leadership succeeds in initiating and sustaining political stability to the extent that it is able to engage other groups in coalition work, to strengthen the state and its political institutions, and...