Temario "Temy" C. Rivera (1946 or 1947 – September 18, 2024) was a Filipino

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Background

Rivera was educated at the University of the Philippines Diliman where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science in 1966, and a master's in the same subject in 1982. He was also editor-in-chief of ''

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'' in 1967. He received his doctorate in development studies at the

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(Ph.D.) In 1994, he authored the prize-winning book, ''Landlords and Capitalists: Class, Family and State in Philippine Manufacturing'' (published by the University of the Philippines Press). Rivera was professor of

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at the

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, where he served as Chair of the Department of Political Science from 1993 to 1998. He also chaired the Center for People Empowerment in Governance from 2013 until his death from pancreatic cancer on September 18, 2024, at the age of 77. He had been diagnosed with the disease the previous month.

Landlords and capitalists

Patently Marxist and combining Philippine elite

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, his analysis in ''Landlords and Capitalists'' implicitly accepted the theoretical line of semi-feudal and semi-colonial of the Philippine revolutionary left, demonstrating that the social structure and economic topography of the Philippines is exhibiting hybrid features of

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and

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. The ''hybridity'' of this socio-economic architecture in a context of a weak state formation often captive by robust traditional social forces (clans, families) has caused and sustained the inequitable distribution of economic and political power in the Philippine society (described by

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as an "immobile class structure that is one of the worst in

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")Walden Bello et al., ''Anti-Developmentalist State: The Political Economy of Permanent Crisis in the Philippines'' (

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: University of the Philippines Press, 2004) and the harnessing of democratic efforts towards patently conservative objectives such as obstructionist policies on

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, inadequate social service, and anti-labor inclination among others. Rivera also faulted this unique feature for the continuing developmental morass that afflicts the Philippines, despite the fact that most of its neighbors in the

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n region have significantly achieved substantive development as newly industrialized economies. Temario later lived in

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, where he was a professor of comparative politics at the

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. He also served as the editor in chief of the ''Philippine Political Science Journal'' since 1993.

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1940s births Year of birth uncertain 2024 deaths University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni University of the Philippines alumni Academic staff of the University of the Philippines Filipino political scientists 20th-century Filipino historians Political science journal editors Filipino expatriates in the United States Filipino expatriates in Japan 21st-century Filipino historians Philippine Collegian editors Deaths from pancreatic cancer in the Philippines {{Philippines-academic-bio-stub