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"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.".
"For many years, the entrenchment of numerous provincial warlords and political clans has made the Philippines a striking case of local bossism. The author argues that the roots of bossism in the Philippines lie in the inauguration of formal democratic institutions at a relatively early stage of capitalist development.
Poverty and insecurity leave many voters vulnerable to clientelist, coercive, and financial pressure, and the state's central role in capital accumulation provides the basis for local bosses' economic empires and political machines. These contradictions have encouraged bossism in the Philippines, as well as in other countries.".
"The book elaborates these arguments through case studies of bosses in two Philippine provinces, Cavite and Cebu. In sum, Capital, Coercion, and Crime provides a comparative historical analysis of bossism, drawing conclusions of great interest not only to scholars of Southeast Asia but to students of comparative politics as well."--BOOK JACKET.
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Capital, Coercion, and Crime: Bossism in the Philippines (Contemporary Issues in Asia and Pacific)
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