In her new publication, ISS post-doc researcher Charmaine Ramos re-examines a case of corruption that was perpetuated during a period of authoritarian rule in the Philippines: the subversion of ‘coconut levies’, a tax on coconut production imposed by strongman President Ferdinand Marcos from 1971 to 1982.
Published in New Political Economy, the article interrogates how current analyses of the so-called 'coconut levies' case have explained associated malign developmental outcomes with reference to institutional design and governance conditions.
It re-interprets these analyses by focusing on the distributional contest underpinning levy mobilization, including the types of state-engineered privileges contested, and how access to these were politically determined and regulated during and after the Marcos period.
Acknowledgement - The article was prepared with support from the AIDSOCPRO project at International Institute of Social Studies.
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