00000cab a22000003a 4500 UP-1685675941123975711 Buklod 20231008011922.0 a r |||| u| ta 200304s xx d | ||r ||||| || UPVTC eng Thompson, Mark R. author Southeast Asia's subversive voters a Philippine perspective Mark R. Thompson. Quezon City Ateneo de Manila University 2016. pp. 265-287. Professorial address "In the Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries poor people's voting behavior has been subversive of elite interests, causing the upper classes to be skeptical of votes cast by the poor and to "educate" them on the "proper" exercise of suffrage. But voting by the poor can be understood within a "moral economy" framework in which communal interests transcend utilitarian calculations. Populist politicians (Joseph Estrada in the Philippines and Thaksin Shinawatra in Thailand) have brought localist voting patterns to the national level, resulting in adverse reactions: an elite-led insurrection ousted Estrada in 2001, while the Thai military staged the coup of 2014 to break the electoral bond between pro-Thaksin politicians and the poor." Elections. Population. Southeast Asia. Poor voters. Philippine studies : historical and ethnographic viewpoints 64, 2 (June 2016). FI UPTAC UPTAC Article