Download or read book Elections and Democratization in the Philippines written by Jennifer Franco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. This study shows how legitimate elections held under centralized authoritarian conditions before 1986, though not democratic, still contributed to democratization by creating the political space needed for democratic oppostion to arise.