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Rethinking Philippine Political Frameworks by Ruby Dianne Bobila is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document summarizes and critiques the dominant "patron-client, factional" (PCF) framework for analyzing politics in the Philippines. While PCF correctly emphasizes the importance of personal relationships like family ties and patronage networks, it is limited because it minimizes other important factors like political ideas, organizations, and conflicts beyond personal ones. The document reviews two alternative frameworks - dependency theory and elite democracy theory - but notes they also have shortco
- Author
- Ruby Dianne Bobila
- Language
- EN