In a predatory state:

The behavior of elites is cynical (concerned only with one's own interests) and opportunistic.

In a predatory state:

If there are competitive elections, they become a bloody zero-sum (one person's gain is equivalent to another's loss) struggle in which everything is at stake and no one can afford to lose.

In a predatory state:

Ordinary people are not truly citizens but clients of powerful local bosses, who are themselves the clients of still more powerful patrons.

In a predatory state:

Stark (severe) inequalities in power and status create vertical chains of dependency, secured by patronage, coercion, and demagogic (win people's support by appealing to their emotions rather than using reasonable arguments) electoral appeals to ethnic pride and prejudice.

In a predatory state:

Public policies and programs do not really matter, since rulers have few intentions of delivering on them anyway.

In a predatory state:

Officials feed on the state, and the powerful prey on the weak.

In a predatory state:

The purpose of government is not to generate public goods, such as roads, schools, clinics, and sewer systems. Instead, it is to produce private goods for officials, their families, and their cronies.

In the Philippines:

Millions of Filipinos wallow in poverty even as the elite few control much of the country’s wealth.

In the Philippines:

The number of poor families increased from 4.0 million in 2003 to 4.7 million in 2006.

Source: ADB 2009

In the Philippines:

The greed of a few families has made it difficult for most Filipinos to enjoy the good life.

Source: PDI 2008 by Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno

In the Philippines:

Corruption is the core phenomenon of the predatory state. It is the principal means by which state officials extract wealth from society, deter productive activity, and

thereby reproduce poverty and dependency.

In the Philippines:

Outside of the central state, landed elites, corporate oligarchs, political barons, and organized crime bosses use corruption to purchase access to resources and immunity from taxes and the law.

In the Philippines:

Politicians use corruption to barricade themselves in power.

In the Philippines:

Patrons distribute the crumbs of corruption to maintain their clientelist support groups.

Most if not all of the features of predatory states that have been described applies to the Philippines.

corruption: predatory state :: blood supply: malignant tumor

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