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The Anti-Marcos Struggle - Personalistic Rule and Democratic Transition in the Philippines (Paperback)
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The Anti-Marcos Struggle - Personalistic Rule and Democratic Transition in the Philippines (Paperback)
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The Philippine dictatorship of Ferdinand E. Marcos was
characterized by family-based rule and corruption. This sultanistic
regime-in which the ruler exercised power freely, without loyalty
to any ideology or institution-had to be brought down because
Marcos would never step down. In this book Mark Thompson analyzes
how Marcos' opponents in the political and economic elite coped
with this situation and why their struggle resulted in a transition
to democracy through "people power" rather than through violence
and revolution. Based on 150 interviews that Thompson conducted
with key participants and on unpublished materials collected during
his five trips to the Philippines, the book sheds new light on the
transition process. Thompson reveals how anti-Marcos politicians
backed a terrorist campaign by social democrats and then, after its
failure, joined a "united front" with the communists. But when
opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino, Jr., was assassinated in 1983,
the politicians were able to draw on public outrage and challenge
Marcos at the polls. The opposition's "moral crusade" brought down
Marcos and enabled the new president, Corazon C. Aquino, to
consolidate democracy despite the troubling legacies of the
dictatorship. Thompson argues that the Philippines' long-standing
democratic tradition and the appeal that honest government had to
the Filipinos were important elements in explaining the peaceful
transition process.
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