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Bossism in Cavite and Cebu. JOHN T. SIDEL. ACCOUNTS OF THE VARIOUS LOCAL, congressional, and national elections held in the Philippines since 1986 have highlighted three enduring features of Philippine democracy in the post-Marcos era.
Sidel opens Capital, Coercion, and Crime by explaining that “bosses” are “predatory power brokers who achieve monopolistic control over both coe...
- Oona Thommes Paredes
- 2002
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John T. Sidel. Article. Metrics. Get access. Cite. Extract. Accounts of the various local, congressional, and national elections held in the Philippines since 1986 have highlighted three enduring features of Philippine democracy in the post-Marcos era.
Capital, Coercion, and Crime: Bossism in the Philippines, by John T. Sidel. California: Stanford University Press, 2000. xii + 225. US$55.00, cloth. This book offers an historical perspective on Philippine politics and administration that may hold important lessons for the cur-rent decentralization program. John Sidel shows how the persistent
John T. Sidel is Lecturer in South East Asia Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. This book focuses on local bossism, a common political phenomenon where local power brokers achieve monopolistic control over an area's coercive and economic resources.
Capital, Coercion, and Crime. : John Thayer Sidel. Stanford University Press, 1999 - Political Science - 225 pages. This book focuses on local bossism, a common political phenomenon where local...
Alongside my 1999 book on 'bossism' in the Philippines, I have also tried to extend my arguments to account for patterns of local politics observed elsewhere across Southeast Asia, and to engage with the growing body of mainstream Political Science literature on 'subnational authoritarianism', which is largely grounded in research on Latin ...
