Pluralism, development and the state: The Philippine experience

• Main Author: Rivera, Temario C.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2005
• Subjects: Philippines—Social policy; Philippines—Economic conditions; Philippines—Politics and government; Separatist movements—Philippines; Democracy—Philippines; Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/8637
• Institution: De La Salle University

This paper examines the bases of major divisions and conflict rooted in the Philippine experience of state formation and economic development that have made it difficult to sustain a working pluralist system. In particular, the Muslim secessionist movement, the communist armed movement, the politici...