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High-level Political Appointments in the Philippines

Patronage, Emotion and Democracy

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Rupert Hodder

    1. University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom

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  • Provides a novel and challenging understanding of patronage and its role in democracy, development, and effective organizations
  • Offers a new understanding of ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ societies
  • Presents empirical information on a key feature of Philippines government - the selection of high-level civil servants and political appointees
  • Based on interviews with high-level political appointees

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Patronage and Development

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    Pages 1-4

  3. Patronage and Politics

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    Pages 5-12

  4. Patronage and Appointments in the Philippines

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    Pages 13-28

  5. Dimensionality

    • Rupert Hodder
    Pages 29-47

  6. Competition

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    Pages 49-81

  7. Re-Casting Patronage: Organizations

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    Pages 83-107

  8. Recasting Patronage: Merit

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    Pages 109-139

  9. Conclusions

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    Pages 141-159

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 161-174
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About this book

This book questions the belief that patronage explains poor governance and weak organizations. Its focus is on high-level political appointees in the Philippines, but its implications for development processes and policy are far-reaching. Patronage stimulates the emergence of democracy and welfare, and constitutes formal organizations. So intimately connected is it with the health of democracy and effective organizations that attempts to eradicate patronage only harm social, organizational and democratic life. In developed societies this has meant a growing Puritanism interspersed with bouts of corruption and moral panic; and, as they seek to maintain effective organizations and vibrant democracies, a mounting desire to project their own anxieties and imperfections onto developing countries.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom

    Rupert Hodder

About the author

Rupert Hodder was born in Ibadan, Nigeria, and educated in England and Hong Kong. He has lived and worked in many parts of East and South East Asia, including China, Malaysia and the Philippines. He is currently a Reader at the University of Plymouth, UK., having previously held posts at the LSE and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and visiting posts at La Salle Institute of Governance, Manila, and at the College of Law, Government and International Studies, Universiti Utara Malaysia. He is the author of numerous works that have appeared in Asian Journal of Social Science, Asian Studies Review, Government and Policy, Southeast Asia Research, The Pacific Review, The Far Eastern Economic Review and the Salisbury Review amongst other journals. He is also the author of Emotional Bureaucracy, Merchant Princes, Between Two Worlds, In China’s Image, and The West Pacific Rim.

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