Philippines

Philippines

Articles are organized into three main areas: agrarian policy, foreign policy, and general politics. In addition, inter-regional articles which deal in part with the Philippines are found at the very end of the list below.

Agrarian policy

Philippine Agrarian Institutions in Transition

by David Wurfel, Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, York Univ./Univ. of Toronto prepared for International Conference for Philippine Studies, Quezon City, July 2000

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The Development of Post-War Philippine Land Reform: Political and Sociological Explanations

By David Wurfel. In Second View from the Paddy, Antonio Ledesma, Perla Q. Makil & Virginia A. Miralao, eds., Institute of Philippine Culture, Ateneo de Manila, 1983

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Memo to vice-president-elect Emmanuel Pelaez, 1961

MEMO
To: Vice-president-elect Emmanuel Pelaez
From: David Wurfel, IPA, UP
In Re: Suggestions for Administrative Reorganization and policy Changes in the Field of Agrarian Reform and Rural Development

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Magsaysay and the Philippine Peasantry (review)

Review by David Wurfel in Journal of Asian Studies XXI:2, Feb. 1962
Magsaysay and the Philippine Peasantry: The Agrarian Impact on Philippine Politics, 1953-56. By FRANCES LUCILLE STARNER. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961. 304pp. $6.00 (paper)

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The Philippine Agrarian Crisis

By David Wurfel, in Pacific Affairs, (Winter) 1972-1973.
Review article discussing Eduardo Lachica: Huk: Philippine Agrarian Society in Revolt. Detroit: The Cellar Book Shop (Manila: Solidaridad Publishing House). 1971. 268 pp. $10.75. Also New York: Praeger Publishers, $15.00.

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The Political Consequences of Land Reform in Southeast Asia

By David Wurfel, University of Windsor. Paper delivered at Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Asian Studies Fredericton, New Brunswick, May 1977

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The Philippine Rice Share Tenancy Act

Article by David Wurfel, from Pacific Affairs 1954.

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Philippine Agrarian Policy Today: Implementation and Political Impact

Article by David Wurfel. Institute of SE Asian Studies (Singapore), Occasional Paper No. 46, May 1977.
Adapted from a paper delivered at the 30th. International Congress of Human Sciences on Asia and North Africa, Mexico City, August 3-8, 1976. Published as Data Paper #46, Institute of SE Asian Studies (Singapore), May 1977.

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Toward an Alternative Land Reform Paradigm (review)

Review by David Wurfel in The Journal of Asian Studies; Nov 1991; 50, 4; pg. 989.
Toward an Alternative Land Reform Paradigm: A Philippine Perspective. By YUJIRO HAYAMI, MARIA AGNES R. QUISUMBING, and LOURDES S. ADRIANO. Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1990. xiv, 209 pp.

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Foreign policy

“Land Reform” for the Elite: “Voluntary offers to sell” under C.A.R.P.

By David Wurfel, University of Windsor
prepared for presentation at Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Los Angeles, California, March 25-28, 1993

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Elites and Agrarian Reform in the Philippines

By David Wurfel University of Windsor. Published by IPD, February 1991.
This project has grown out of the recent proliferation of literature on state capacity, especially Joel Migdal, Strong Societies and Weak States; Merilee Grindle, Politics and Policy Implementation in the Third World; and Gillian Hart et al, Agrarian Transformation: Local Processes and the State in Southeast Asia.

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Land Reform: Contexts, Accomplishments and Prospects under Marcos and Aquino

By David Wurfel. In Pilipinas No.12, Spring 1989

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Nationalism, Development And Democracy: Foundations Of Philippine Foreign Policy

by David O.D. Wurfel

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Philippine Foreign Policy

By David Wurfel. In The Political Economy of Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia David Wurfel and Bruce Burton, eds., London: Palgrave MacMillan, 1990.

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General politics

Memorandum to Canada-Asia Working Group: Mining and the Marinduque Environment

MEMORANDUM
To: Canada-Asia Working Group, Toronto
From: David Wurfel, Visiting Professor, University of the Philippines Re: Placer Dome/Marcopper Mining and Marinduque Environment March 6, 1998

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The Philippine Elections: Support for Democracy

By David Wurfel. In Asian Survey 2(3):25-37 (May 1962)

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State and Society in the Philippines: Capacity and Autonomy in Rural Areas

By David Wurfel, University of Windsor. Paper delivered at the 19th Annual Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies Conference, University of British Columbia, Nov. 3-5, 1989.

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Change or Continuity in the Philippines?

By David Wurfel. In Current History (December 1992).

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Inter-regional articles

Democracy, Nationalism, and Ethnic Identity: The Philippines and East Timor Compared

By David Wurfel. In Democratization and Identity: Regimes and Ethnicity in East and Southeast Asia, Susan J. Henders ed. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004.

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Japan-Philippine Relations: Economic and Cultural Determinants of Mutual Images in an Unequal Cooperative Dyad

by David Wurfel, Department of Political Science, University of Windsor. Paper presented at AAS, Chicago, March 21-23, 1986

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