00000caa a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862197656 Buklod 20201026232848.0 m | | ta 201026s2013 xx r |||| u|eng d (iLib)UPBAG-00038350697 BAG rda eng ARTICLE-765 Inarejos, Juan Antonio author. "Moral influence" in Asia political practice and electoral corruption in the Spanish Philippines Juan Antonio Inarejos. 2013. pages [223]-249 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-249). Proceeding from microhistory of local elections at the end of the nineteenth century in one municipality, this article traces the mechanisms of representation and exercise of local power in the Spanish Philippines. Within the colonial apparatus, the municipal sphere was one of the few areas of tangible power for the principalía (indigenous elites). The local elites, who were selected by colonial authorities based on political, economic, and religious criteria, played an important role in the fealties and resistances in the colony. This article examines the significance of the Maura Law or the electoral reforms of 1893, and the obstacles encountered in the eradication of electoral abuse moral influence that colonial authorities, through action or inaction, had promoted over the years. Elite (Social sciences) History. Philippines Politics and government 1521-1898. Spain Colonies Philippines Administration. Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Vol. 61, No. 2 (June 2013), p. 223-249. Request full-text access via UPB University Library through https://forms.gle/KZjBv7aRtY6jiL5E9 (viewed 26 October 2020) FI UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN ARTICLE-765 Analytics