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Article: Agrarian Reform in the Philippines: Democratic Transitions and Redistributive Reform.
- Article from:
- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
- Article date:
- September 1, 1997
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Inequitable land distribution has been a political, social, and economic issue for generations in the Philippines. Several studies on the problem have been done, many of them pointing to the inability and unwillingness of the state, whether during American colonial rule or after independence, to get serious about agrarian reform. The finding is repeated in Jeffrey Riedinger's engaging book.
One general question that interests Riedinger is the extent to which democratic reform and land reform can be combined. He works with a body of theory that says land reform can occur in a democratic political system provided it includes a disciplined, reform-oriented political ...