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Between Advocacy and Opposition: The Popular Movements Two Years after the Philippine February

Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies

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Title Between Advocacy and Opposition: The Popular Movements Two Years after the Philippine February
 
Creator Magno, Alexander R.
 
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Description Two years after the popular uprising of February 1988, an elite-dominated liberal democratic regime form has been effectively instituted. Its populist rhetoric notwithstanding, the new regime form has tended to exhibit conservative characteristics, filtering the demands from the grassroots through the institutions of formal representation and bureaucratic procedures that tend to restrict the political influence of grassroots movements and non-governmental popular initiatives. These characteristics of the new regime present the organized forces with distinct dilemmas. In a twilight zone between advocacy and opposition, the popular movements have suffered from a lack of clear perspective on their political role in the medium term. Divided on the various issues, the mass movements have failed to consolidate a unified political from representing various progressive demands for sweeping social reform.
 
Publisher Third World Studies Center
 
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Date 2007-12-15
 
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Identifier http://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/kasarinlan/article/view/647
 
Source Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies; Vol 4, No 1 (1988); 05-08
2012-080X
0116–0923
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/kasarinlan/article/view/647/648
 
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