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100 _aRamos, Charmaine G.
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245 _aChange without Transformation:
_bSocial Policy Reforms in the Philippines under Duterte /
260 _bWiley,
_c2020.
300 _aVol 51, issue 2, 2020 : (485-505 p.).
520 _aThis article explores social policy reforms championed by the Philippines’ strongman president Rodrigo Duterte during his first three years in office (2016–19), as a case for examining the transformative potential of social policy expansion under rising new right-wing and authoritarian leaders. By showing how political economy and historico-institutional conditions foreclose the transformative possibilities of the social policy changes effected by Duterte, the author offers a critique of current tendencies in global development discourses to treat all forms of social policy expansion as progressive. In the Philippines case, there is no progressive ideology guiding the reforms, nor are there political movements overseeing the expansion of social rights now inscribed in law. Rather, the reforms institutionally entrench a minimalist approach to universalism and strengthen the foothold of poverty targeting as an organizing principle of social provisioning. Social policy expansion under Duterte manifests aspects of the ‘dark side’ of social policy reforms during the current global political moment, including the use of such policy reforms to legitimize a conservative and authoritarian political order, and the functionality, across the political spectrum, of ‘narrow universalism’ — the type championed by international development agencies — which serves to deepen segmentation in social provisioning.
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_dWest Sussex John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 1970
_tDevelopment and change
_x0012-155X
856 _u https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12564
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