Temario Rivera

Temario C. Rivera was a former professor of political science

Political science

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 at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City where he served as Chair of the Department of Political Science from 1993-1998. He was educated at the University of the Philippines (A.B., M.A.) and the University of Wisconsin–Madison (Ph.D.) In 1994, he authored the prize-winning book, Landlords and Capitalists: Class, Family and State in Philippine Manufacturing (published by the University of the Philippines Press).

Landlords and Capitalists

Patently Marxist and combining Philippine elite historiography

Historiography

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, his analysis in Landlords and Capitalists implicitly accepted the theoretical line of semi-feudal and semi-colonial of the Philippine revolutionary left, demonstrating that the social structure and economic topography of the Philippines is exhibiting hybrid features of capitalism

Capitalism

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 and feudalism

Feudalism

Feudalism was a set of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries, which, broadly defined, was a system for ordering society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour.Although derived from the...

. The hybridity of this socio-economic architecture in a context of a weak state formation often captive by robust traditional social forces (clans, families) has caused and sustained the inequitable distribution of economic and political power in the Philippine society (described by Walden Bello

Walden Bello

Walden Bello is a Filipino author, academic, and political analyst. He is a professor of sociology and public administration at the University of the Philippines Diliman, as well as executive director of Focus on the Global South...

 as an "immobile class structure that is one of the worst in Asia

Asia

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")http://www.focusweb.org/content/view/542/30/, and the harnessing of democratic efforts towards patently conservative objectives such as obstructionist policies on land reform

Land reform

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, inadequate social service, and anti-labor inclination among others. Rivera also faulted this unique feature for the continuing developmental morass that afflicts the Philippines, despite the fact that most of its neighbors in the Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia

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n region have significantly achieved substantive development as newly industrialized economies.

Currently residing in Japan

Japan

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, he is professor of comparative politics at the International Christian University in Tokyo. He has also served as the editor in chief of the Philippine Political Science Journal since 1993.