WEEK 8: Democracy and Inequality: Class Conflict in the Phillipines

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TUESDAY (11/6)
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READINGS FOR WEEK 8
  • Frederic C. Schaffer, "Clean Elections and the 'Great Unwashed': Class Divide and Electoral Reform in the Philippines." Paper delivered at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, August 30-September 2, 2001.

  • Benedict Anderson, "Cacique Democracy in the Philippine," in The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World (New York: Verso, 1998): 192-226.
  • Michael Pinches, "The Working Class Experience of Shame, Inequality, and People Power in Tatalon, Manila," in From Marcos to Aquino: Local Perspectives on Political Transition in the Philippines (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992): 166-186.
  • Carl H. Lande, "The Return of 'People Power' in the Philippines," Journal of Democracy 12(2)[April 2001]: 88-102.
  • Ellen Tordesillas, "EDSA Tres" in Hot Money, Warm Bodies: The Downfall of Philippine President Estrada (Manila: Anvil, 2001): 245-252.

    Paper #2 Due - 11/9

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Top: Map of the Philippines

Bottom: Former president Joseph Estrada.


Above: The Banaue rice terraces, built by the Ifugaos mountain tribe more than 2,000 years ago, has been called the eighth wonder of the world.

Above: Philippino protest the findings of the Estrada impeachment hearings.

   

 

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