Networks of (Dis)Trust: The Impact of Automation, Corruption, and Media on Philippine Elections

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This book discusses how in a Philippine context, the bureaucracy and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is dysfunctional and that corruption has a ubiquitous impact on governance and administration that has defined how that states operate. Scholars and commentators have described Philippine democracy as a paradox. This book uses the unprecedented May 2010 synchronized automation of elections an attempt at electoral engineering to better understand the lingering paradox of Philippine politics and its public administration system

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Going well beyond patronage and clientelism, the traditional paradigm of Philippine politics, Vicente Chua Reyes, Jr., deepens our understanding of the contested character of the countrys flawed and fragile democracy. Examining the Philippines very first automated national elections in 2010 and drawing from social capital theory, Reyes cogently illustrates how networks of trust and networks of distrust interact, overlap and compete for power among actors in electoral exercises. -- Nathan Quimpo, University of Tsukuba

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Vicente Chua Reyes, Jr. is professor at the University of Queensland