Q2: Chapter 3 | Political Dynasty

Elite Democracy:

  • Exclusive

  • Privilege

  • For the Powerful and Gives you Power

  • Monopoly

  • Private Interests

Article 9B, Section 6 (1987 Philippine Constitution):

  • A free and open party system shall be allowed to evolve according to the free choice of the people, subject to the provisions of this article.

Article 2, Section 26 (1987 Philippine Constitution):

  • The state shall guarantee equal access to opportunities for public service, and prohibit political dynasties as may be defined by law.

Fat Dynasty — Pagookupa ng iisang pamilya o magkakamag-anak ng iba’t ibang halal na posisyon nang magkakasabay.

  • Corruption

  • Inequality

  • Increased Poverty within the Region

  • Kaharasan

  • Paggamit ng batas upang proteksyunan ang mga kapamilya na nasa dinastiya na may kaso.

  • Pagpapanatili ng isang pamilya sa kapangyarihan sa ekonomiya at pulitika.

Thin Dynasty — Paghawak ng iisang o angkan sa isang halal na posisyon nang sunud-sunod.

Patron-Client Relationship (Tools to Gain Politcal Machinery):

  1. Kapagyarihang Pang-Ekonomiko

  2. Pagsasagawa ng Reporma

  3. Political Machinery

  4. Patron-Client Relationship

  • Media, Political Parties, Supporters

Video Analysis:

  • Majority of winners (2019 senatorial election) are from the administration coalition.

  • Over 20 parties competed in the political race.

  • NDP and Nacionalista and other parties are all under one umbrella category.

Article 9B, Section 6 (1987 Philippine Constitution):

  • A free and open party system shall be allowed to evolve according to the free choice of the people, subject to the provisions of this article.

Political parties aren’t mature.

  • They merge, collapse, and create coalitions, making it hard to tell them apart.

  • Use of buzzwords for their title.

  • The only way to tell them apart is to realize which political clan controls them.

    • e.g. PDP by Duterte, Pimentel, and Zubiri and NDP Villar and Marcoses

    • Name-Personality Based Parties

U.S Parties:

  • They have a clear line of republicans and democrats.

  • They give the candidates the equipment needed for the campaign period.

  • Not only for labels and political dynasty.

  • Citizens label themselves to the ideology which they align with and what they stand for.

  • While Filipinos align themselves to personal allegiances, etc.

Article 2, Section 26 (1987 Philippine Constitution):

  • The state shall guarantee equal access to opportunities for public service, and prohibit political dynasties as may be defined by law.

  • No law prohibits political dynasties because of its lack of definitions.

  • Congress are also comprised of many dynastic families, making anti-political dynasty bills harder to pass.

  • 79% senador and 90% congress and 30% of party list reps. are from dynastic families.

  • No less than 188 positions in the local gov’t are held by political families for the past 20 years.

  • Because of this, check-and-balances within the government is weakened.

  • (ASOG) Fat dynasties have severed within the past 30 years in the PH.

  • 80% of governors are fat dynasties,

  • It’s hard to tell them