The Philippines at the Polls

Issue Date October 1992
Volume 3
Issue 4
Page Numbers 110-24
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About the Author

David G. Timberman is a technical director at Management Systems International in Arlington, Virginia. Currently he is the Lee Kong Chian Distinguished Fellow on Contemporary Southeast Asia, in residence at the National University of Singapore and Stanford University.

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