How did the constitutional authoritarianism of the Marcos regime

benefit the Philippines?

Potential Benefit

● Architecture
○ Philippine Heart Center
○ Lung Center of the Philippines
○ The National Kidney and Transplant Institute
○ San Juanico Bridge
○ CCP Complex >>:(
● Amos -
○ The decrease in criminal activities and increase in economy in the early years
of martial law

Supplementary
THE MARCOS RULE AND ITS DYNAMICS OF POLITICAL CONTROL
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41950336?read-now=1&seq=4#page_scan_tab_contents
● Can be used for the intro
● Check page 4 improved military stuff? (also check conjugal page 58 for military)
● Martial law on economic development: had two phases one focused on infrastructure
and the other on human stuff(education, health, etc) page 5(not of actual book page)
● “The Marcos rule in the Philippines had both good and bad effects. The good effects
were related to the development of extensive infrastructure projects which the
country had never before experienced……(skipping bad part)......p13

Required Readings:
Proclamation 1081. 21 September 1972.
https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1972/09/21/proclamation-no-1081/

Constantino, Renato. “January 26: Two Moods.” Graphic Magazine, February 11, 1970.
https://fqslibrary.wordpress.com/page/3/
Mijares, Primitivo. Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. San Francisco:
Union Square Publications, 1976
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YQKcNcjuk5n2SaafcfzrNrq_1te9BrKE

Maybe:Boyce, James. The Political Economy of Growth and Impoverishment in the Marcos
Era. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1993.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/42633459?seq=1

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24356912?read-now=1&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents