TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kusara, Wataru.
TI  - Moral politics in the Philippines: inequality, democary,  and the urban poor 
SN  - 9789715508988
AV  - DS 686.614 .W38 2019 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Quezon City
PB  - Ateneo de Manila University Press
KW  - URBAN POOR
KW  - POLITICAL ACTIVITY
KW  - PHILIPPINES
KW  - DEMOCRATIZATION
KW  - POLITICAL CULTURE
KW  - POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
KW  - 1986
KW  - POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
N1  - Includes notes, bibliography, and index; List of illustrations--Foreword to the Philippines edition--Preface--Introduction: Philippines democracy and moral politics--Analytical framework--Formation of the dual public sphere--People power and moral antagonism -- Moral antagonism in elections--Moral antagonism in urban governance--The revival of moral nationalism--Beyond moral politics--Addendum: Duterte as a drastic medicine--Afterword--Notes--Bibliography -- Index
N2  - The people” famously ousted Ferdinand Marcos from power in the Philippines in 1986. After democratization, though, a fault line appeared that split the people into citizens and the masses. The former were members of the middle class who engaged in civic action against the restored elite-dominated democracy, and viewed themselves as moral citizens in contrast with the masses, who were poor, engaged in illicit activities and backed flawed leaders. The masses supported emerging populist counter-elites who promised to combat inequality, and saw themselves as morally upright in contrast to the arrogant and oppres-sive actions of the wealthy in arrogating resources to themselves
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