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Clientelism Populism
• Revitalizing clientelism
Arroyo’s Neo-traditionalism
• Choosing Noli de Castro as her vice-presidential
candidate
GRACE POE
- Populism
- promised feeding
programs to help
poor schoolkids,
embraced
grandmothers, and
commiserated with
widows of a botched
police operation.
- “Gubyernong may
puso”
JEJOMAR BINAY
- Populism
- embraced his identity as a
dark-skinned Filipino from
humble roots, dismissing
corruption allegations as a
ploy by the ruling elite to stop
a self-made man from
clinching power.
- - Binay is the ‘godfather’ who
pays the bills, attends funerals,
funds feeding programs, hugs
the elderly and cares for the
poor.
MANUEL ROXAS II
- Reformist
- “Tuwid na Daan”
- All work, no drama was his
campaign message
RODRIGO DUTERTE
- Populist
BUT WHAT
MADE HIM
STAND
OUT?
Webb, A., & Curato, N. C. (2018). Populism in the Philippines .
Duterte and the latest victory of
populist politics in the
Philippines
• Duterte positioned himself as the solution to the country’s
domestic and international decline.
Features of
Clientelist
Politics of
1960s and
70s
Fraud Coercion
Three Gs of
Wealth and
Power
President
Ferdinand Marcos
Predation-Authoritarianism Techniques
TRUE????
Centralized Political Patronage
Control of the 1941 reelection
Legislature
Manuel
Quezon
Constitutional
provision
• “mutual support”
THUS…
• Mutually Supportive
– Both cannot really flourish without the cooperation of the other
– One provides protection for the other