"Pork barrel is not for development, as lawmakers would now claim, but for political alliance building. It is one way by which the President generates majority legislative support. When the ties that bind the executive and the legislative involve money rather than an agenda or a platform, alliance building transforms into patronage politics. The name of the game then becomes one of wheeling-dealing: pork in exchange of legislative support. This is highly evident in at least two instances: (i) when legislators shift to the camp of the winning President even when they were staunch critics of this President in the previous dispensation, and (ii) when the release of the pork of non-supportive legislators is withheld or delayed by the executive."
Posted on: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 11:16:19 +0000
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