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In the wave of third world democracy-building during the 1980s, the restoration of democratic hopes in the Philippines stands out, thanks to the depravity of the old order and the clarity of the democratic hopes of the new middle and upper-middle-class elite that brought Corazon Aquino to power.
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Larry Diamond, “Introduction: Persistence, Erosion, Breakdown, and Renewal,” in Larry Diamond, Juan J. Linz, and Seymour Martin Lipset, Democracy in Developing Countries, Vol. 3, Asia (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1989), p. 16.
Paul Hutchcroft, “Oligarchs and Cronies in the Philippine State: The Politics of Patrimonial Plunder,” World Politics 43 (April 1991), pg. 414–450.
Interview by Rey Arquiza with Senate President, The Manila Chronicle (9 September 1990), Foreign Broadcast Information Service-East Asia-90–176, (Sept. 1990), p. 49. Hereafter FBIS-EAS.
Cited as interview with Clad, in Lucy Komisar, Corazon Aquino: The Story of a Revolution (New York: George Braziller, 1988), p. 241, and interview by author with Clad, Washington, D.C., 1989.
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Thompson, W.S. (1992). Democracy and Development. In: The Philippines in Crisis. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-11726-7_2
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