Presidential Bandwagon:
Parties and Party Systems in the Philippines
LIST OF ACROYMS LIST OF FIGURES LIST OF TABLES
Chapter 1 Introduction Democratic Consolidation and Party System Stability The Arguments Other Contributions Organization of the Book
Chapter 2 DeStabilization of Party System after Regime Change Introduction 2.1 The Development of Philippine Political Institutions 2.2 Destabilization of the Party System after Re-democratization 2.3 Existing Theories of Party-System (In)Stability Theories in the Comparative Politics Literature The Faction-Based Theory in Philippine Studies Chapter Summary
Chapter 3 The Presidential Bandwagon Framework Introduction 3.1 Predicting Patterns of Party-Affiliation Behavior 3.2 Explaining Instability in the Legislative Party System 3.3 Explaining Instability in Presidential Elections 3.4 Caveats Chapter Summary
Chapter 4 Patronage in Philippine Elections Introduction 4.1 Overview of Strategies 4.2 Policy 4.3 Personality 4.4 Patronage Pork-Barreling Casework Vote-Buying The Relationship between Pork, Casework, and Vote-Buying 4.5 Why is Patronage so Important? Chapter Summary
Chapter 5 The President's Control of Legislators’ Patronage Introduction 5.1 Sources of Pork for Legislators Importance of the National Budget Sources of Pork from the National Government Budget 5.2 The President’s Power of Release 5.3 Presidents’ Actual Use of the Power of Release 5.4 Why Does the President Maintain his Power of Release? Initial Condition Actors and their Preferences Institutional Setting and its Expected Effects Congressional Attempts to Take Away the Presidential Power of Release Chapter Summary
Chapter 6 Permeability of Party Nomination Introduction 6.1. Nomination for the House of Representatives Official Rule: Local Convention Actual Nomination Practices 6.2. Nomination for Senatorial Seats Official Rule: National Convention Actual Nomination Practices 6.3. Why is Party Nomination Kept Permeable? National Party Leaders’ Incentives Organizational Structure of Philippine Parties Chapter Summary
Chapter 7 Party Affiliation Behavior Introduction 7.1 Party-Switching in the Philippines 7.2 Direction of Party-Switching 7.3 Calculus of Party Affiliation Hypotheses Regression Model Results and Analysis Chapter Summary
Chapter 8 Explaining Legislative Party-System Formation Introduction 8.1 Testing the Faction-based Theory Did the Number of Factions Increase? Modernization and Factional Politics 8.2 Correlation Analysis of the Presidential Bandwagon Framework 8.3 The Mechanism of Party-System Formation in the House of Representatives 8.4 The Mechanism of Senate Party-System Formation Chapter Summary
Chapter 9 The Dynamics of Presidential Elections Introduction 9.1 Presidential Elections Before and After the Authoritarian Interlude 9.2 Increased Number of Presidential Candidates 9.3 Party-Label Instability in Post-Marcos Presidential Elections The Effect of Incumbent Entry from a Comparative Perspective The Philippine Case Illustrated Chapter Summary
Chapter 10 Presidential Term Limit and Party System Instability in New Democracies Introduction 10. 1. Presidential Term Limit as a Neglected Aspect 10.2 Theory Incumbent Entry and the Number of Presidential Candidates Number of Presidential Candidates and Party System Stability The Presidential- and Legislative-Level Party System Instability 10.3 Regression Models and Data Preparation Testing Hypothesis 10.1 Testing Hypothesis 10.2 Testing Hypothesis 10.3 10.4 Results and Discussion Incumbent Entry on Number of Presidential Candidates Fragmentation of Presidential Elections on Presidential Party System Volatility Presidential and Legislative Party System Volatility Chapter Summary
Chapter 11 Conclusion 11.1 Comparative Implications of the Philippine Case Presidential Term Limits and Party System Stability in New Democracies Presidentialism and the Number of Legislative Parties 11.2 The Future of Philippine Party Politics Will the Philippine Party System Stabilize? Will Parties Continue to be Weak? Final Remarks
APPENDICES BIBLIOGRAPHY LIST OF INTERVIEWS
INDEX
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