The Philippines

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20056795
AutoresJulio C Teehankee (0000-0002-1335-5594, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Páginas187-205
Fecha de publicación2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaPolitical Parties and Democracy (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137277206_11
OpenAlexW4248442384
ISBN9781137277206
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas8

The Philippines had once been the showcase of Western-style democracy in Asia. From 1946 to 1972, a formal two-party system functioned to stabilize intraelite competition in the former American colony. Two parties—the Nacionalista Party (NP) founded in 1907 and the Liberal Party (LP) founded in 1946—contested elections and alternated in power by taking control of the presidency and both chambers of the Philippine congress. However, despite their regular political intramurals, the two parties were identical in their structures, social makeup, and policies. Both parties were controlled by the educated and landed elite who did not seek mass membership, only mass support.1

Democracy · Economic history · Elite · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Presidency · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Public Administration