POLI 369 Lecture 5: Poli 369 Lecture 5
15 Dec 2015
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09/24/2015: long nacionalista party, liberal party, ferdinand marcos, new society, crony capitalism, king ananda mahidol(n, pridi bhanomyong, phibul(n) songhkram, sarit thanarat. Did not make a large difference from before. The original landholders and elite still held most of the money and the. Network of the presidency w/ links all the way to the village level. The lower levels would deliver votes for the president, and in exchange the president would deliver funds, agricultural supplies, etc. to the village chief (cid:1) Political parties have not competed on ideological lines. No clear class cleavages, ethnic cleavages (cid:1) Liberal: emerged in 1946 as an offshoot of the nacionalista. Post-war period was dominated by these two. Not divided on ideological lines but it was more about individuals competing. After the americans colonized and crushed the radical nationalist (cid:1) movement, the philippines had no surviving nationalist movement that would create a more institutionalized party (cid:1)
