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Article: Agrarian Reform in the Philippines: Democratic Transitions and Redistributive Reform.
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- American Political Science Review
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- June 1, 1997
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Agrarian Reform in the Philippines: Democratic Transitions and Redistributive Reform. By Jeffrey M. Riedinger. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. 366p. $45.00.
Debates about the "dilemmas of simultaneity"--dual transitions to democracy and the market--should not obscure another key issue that has often accompanied regime change: demands for social reform. The end of authoritarianism in many countries has raised hopes not only of more political openness and higher living standards but also of greater socioeconomic equality. In few recent transitions have expectations of social change been greater than in the Philippines after the dictatorship of Ferdinand E. ...