Vicente Chua Reyes

Networks of (Dis)Trust

The Impact of Automation, Corruption, and Media on Philippine Elections

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book reviews dominant paradigms of the Philippine state trapped in a simplistic patronage politics perspective. Using the unprecedented automation of the May 2010 elections, this book provides fresh theoretical perspectives in understanding the Philippine state as a complex assemblage of networks of distrust.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781498534123
• ISBN-10: 1498534120
• Artikelnr.: 57018377

Autorenporträt

Vicente Chua Reyes, Jr. is associate professor at the University of Nottingham.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: The Pathological Philippine Public Administration System:
Dysfunctional Bureaucracy, Systemic Corruption and Weak Rule of Law
Chapter Two: Patronage Politics and Patron-Client Ties: Interrogating
Dominant Paradigms
Chapter Three: Corruption, Electoral Reforms and Wicked Problems: Assessing
Automation of Elections as Electoral Engineering
Chapter Four: May 2010 Automated Elections for the Office of the President:
Reformation Or Restoration?
Chapter Five: May 2010 Automated Elections for Philippine Senators: Change
Or Continuity?
Chapter Six: Networks of (Dis)Trust: Theorising beyond Patronage Politics