Lead Review

• Book: An Anarchy of Families: State and Family in the Philippines
• Location: The Philippines
• Author: Alfred W McCoy

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 Manila grows out of the way society actually works — it is hard to question this seemingly incontrovertible proposition.

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