The Political Dimension in the Agrarian Question: Strategies of Resilience and Political Entrepreneurship of Agrarian Elite Families in a Philippine Province
Relates the strategies of political resilience of landed oligarchies to the political dimension of the agrarian question in the Philippines. Bukidnon in Northern Mindanao is used to illustrate how pioneer agrarian families have protected their economic privileges and survived the political challenge...
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Published in | Rural sociology Vol. 64; no. 4; pp. 667 - 692 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Oxford, UK
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
01.12.1999
Rural Sociological Society Rural Sociological Society, etc |
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Summary: | Relates the strategies of political resilience of landed oligarchies to the political dimension of the agrarian question in the Philippines. Bukidnon in Northern Mindanao is used to illustrate how pioneer agrarian families have protected their economic privileges and survived the political challenge posed by migrant politicians. Despite differences in their economic bases and social backgrounds, pioneer families and migrant politicians share various strategies of political entrepreneurship and rent-seeking that have maintained oligarchic rule. Analysis of provincial and national political dynamics, as played out in Bukidnon, shows how the nexus of property, power and privilege is consolidated, contested, and reconstructed in the ongoing competition among Bukidnon elites. (Original abstract - amended) |
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Bibliography: | ark:/67375/WNG-N5D4ZTFQ-N ArticleID:RUSO383 The author thanks Professors JoAnn Jaffe, University of Regina; Michael Gertler, University of Saskatchewan; Jayant Lele, Abbie Bakan, Bruce Berman and Bob Shenton at Queen's University (Kingston); Alfred McCoy at the University of Wisconsin (Madison); Neric Acosta at Xavier University (Cagayan de Oro); Tom Lyson at Cornell University and five anonymous reviewers for their comments on earlier versions of this paper. Special thanks are due to the many Bukidnon political elites interviewed for this study. istex:2E46A47DE934604545EF93899EFF9CB2D358FC07 ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 ObjectType-Article-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 |
ISSN: | 0036-0112 1549-0831 |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1549-0831.1999.tb00383.x |