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- Provides a novel and challenging understanding of patronage and its role in democracy, development, and effective organizations
- Offers a new understanding of ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ societies
- Presents empirical information on a key feature of Philippines government - the selection of high-level civil servants and political appointees
- Based on interviews with high-level political appointees
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book questions the belief that patronage explains poor governance and weak organizations. Its focus is on high-level political appointees in the Philippines, but its implications for development processes and policy are far-reaching. Patronage stimulates the emergence of democracy and welfare, and constitutes formal organizations. So intimately connected is it with the health of democracy and effective organizations that attempts to eradicate patronage only harm social, organizational and democratic life. In developed societies this has meant a growing Puritanism interspersed with bouts of corruption and moral panic; and, as they seek to maintain effective organizations and vibrant democracies, a mounting desire to project their own anxieties and imperfections onto developing countries.
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Rupert Hodder
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: High-level Political Appointments in the Philippines
Book Subtitle: Patronage, Emotion and Democracy
Authors: Rupert Hodder
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4560-05-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-4560-04-7Published: 22 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1170-2Published: 18 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-4560-05-4Published: 08 October 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 174
Topics: Political Communication, Public Administration, Personality and Social Psychology, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology