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An Anarchy of Families: State and Family in the Philippines

An Anarchy of Families: State and Family in the Philippines

Author(s): Alfred W McCoy

Location(s): The Philippines

Genre(s): Historical

Era(s): Current

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Winner of the Philippine National Book Award, this pioneering volume reveals how the power of Filipino family-based oligarchies both derives from and contributes to a weak, corrupt state. From provincial warlords to modern managers, prominent Philippine leaders have fused family, politics, and business to subvert public institutions and amass private wealth – an historic pattern that continues to the present day.

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This is “bottoms up” analysis which suggests some of the loftier ways of looking at the Philippine political scene don’t bring a lot of insight because the way politics and economics are conducted in...

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