Southeast Asia’s Subversive Voters: A Philippine Perspective

• Main Author: Thompson, Mark R.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2016
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol64/iss2/6; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/phstudies/article/4154/viewcontent/6302.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

In the Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries poor people’s voting behavior has been subversive of elite interests, causing the upper classes to be skeptical of votes cast by the poor and to “educate” them on the “proper” exercise of suffrage. But voting by the poor can be understood within...