Capital, Coercion, and Crime: Bossism in the Philippines - John Thayer Sidel - Google Books

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This book focuses on local bossism, a common political phenomenon where local power brokers achieve monopolistic control over an area's coercive and economic resources. Examples of bossism include Old Corruption in eighteenth-century England, urban…