Agrarian Reform in the Philippines: Democratic Transitions and Redistributive ReformStanford University Press, 1995 - 366 Seiten This text evaluates the capacity of new democratic regimes to promote redistributive agrarian reform, an issue of concern to developing countries throughout the world. It analyzes the problems caused by political liberalization, and social and economic reform by examining in detail the formulation and implementation of agrarian reform in the Philippines under the governments of Corazon Aquino and her successor, Fidel Ramos. It reveals how the interaction between state and society shapes policy decisions, showing that what is needed for successful agrarian reform is a combination of sustained, forceful political leadership and grassroots agitation by peasant organizations. The author concludes that the new Philippine democracy has proved more conducive to redistributive reform that the authoritarian Marcos regime but has still failed to implement the more controversial and costly elements of the reform policy. |
Inhalt
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Democracy and Agrarian Reform | 105 |
Contested Constructions | 139 |
Scandal Subversion and Success | 177 |
StateSociety Relations Democratic Transitions | 214 |
Notes | 237 |
References | 309 |
Index | 355 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
administrative Agrarian Reform Program agricultural lands Aquino and Ramos Aquino government argued Central Luzon Church coconut communist compensation Congress Constitution Corazon Corazon Aquino CPAR CPP/NPA crop cultivators cultural democracy democratic Development distribution economic elections elite estates exempt farm farmers farmworkers Fidel Ramos Filipino Gillego haciendas hectares Heherson Alvarez implementation initiatives Institute insurgency interview issue Jose Maria Sison June June 16 Kerkvliet laborers land reform Land Transfer landless landlords landowners landownership leasehold legislative Manila Marcos-era Marcos's martial law ment military million Mindanao movement National Negros Occidental NFSW Operation owners party peasant organizations percent Philippine peasants Philippine politics planters president production public lands Quezon City redistributive reform reform beneficiaries reform law reform process retention limit rice and corn role rural sector Senate social Social Weather Stations sugar sugar land sugarcane Tadeo tenants tion valuation workers Wurfel
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 283 - The State shall formulate and implement an agrarian reform program aimed at emancipating the tenant from the bondage of the soil and achieving the goals enunciated in this Constitution.
Seite 145 - State shall, by law, undertake an agrarian reform program founded on the right of farmers and regular farmworkers, who are landless, to own directly or collectively the lands they till or, in the case of other farmworkers, to receive a just share of the fruits thereof. To this end, the State shall encourage and undertake the just distribution of all agricultural lands, subject to such priorities and reasonable retention limits as the Congress may prescribe, taking into account ecological, developmental,...
Seite 293 - employee" shall include any employee, and shall not be limited to the employees of a particular employer, unless the Act explicitly states otherwise, and shall include any individual whose work has ceased as a consequence of, or in connection with, any current labor dispute or because of any unfair labor practice, and who has not obtained any other regular and substantially equivalent employment...
Seite 145 - Sec. 8. The State shall provide incentives to landowners to invest the proceeds of the agrarian reform program to promote industrialization, employment creation, and privatization of public sector enterprises. Financial instruments used as payment for their lands shall be honored as equity in enterprises of their choice.
Seite 302 - Congress shall, as early as possible, provide for a system of initiative and referendum, and the exceptions therefrom, whereby the people can directly propose and enact laws or approve or reject any act or law or part thereof passed by the Congress...
Seite 145 - Sec. 6. The State shall apply the principles of agrarian reform or stewardship, whenever applicable in accordance with law, in the disposition or utilization of other natural resources, including lands of the public domain under lease or concession suitable to agriculture, subject to prior rights, homestead rights of small settlers, and the rights of indigenous communities to their ancestral lands. "The State may resettle landless farmers and farmworkers in its own agricultural estates which shall...
Seite 237 - government." It is the continuous administrative, legal, bureaucratic, and coercive system that attempts not only to manage the state apparatus but to structure relations between civil and public power and to structure many crucial relationships within civil and political...
Seite 237 - I mean that arena where manifold social movements ... and civic organizations from all classes attempt to constitute themselves in an ensemble of arrangements so that they can express themselves and advance their interests.
Seite 145 - State shall recognize the right of farmers, farmworkers, and landowners, as well as cooperatives, and other independent farmers' organizations to participate in the planning, organization, and management of the program, and shall provide support to agriculture through appropriate technology and research, and adequate financial, production, marketing, and other support services.