Defining Events and/or

Key Features of Political Key Institutions of

Country
Cultures
Primacy of kinship ties;
pakikisama; utang na loob;
personalistic politics;
Philippines collectivistic rather than
individualistic; bossism;
structure-embedded; patronage
politics
Authoritarianism; civic
orientation; collectivism;
alienation; factionalism;
South Korea propensity to resistance;
nationalism; complex mixture of
both old and new values and
cognitions
The Korean Workers’ Party is
given legal supremacy over other
political parties; the government
North Korea
closely supervises the lives of
the citizens; severe limitation on
freedom of expression
Important Repeated
Socialization
Experiences
Spanish colonization; American
Educational system; religion; colonization; Japanese
family, government; mass colonization; EDSA People
media; workplace Power Revolution I; EDSA
People Power Revolution II
Korean War; Military Junta of
Educational system; religion; 1960s organized by college
family; government; military students against dictatorial
regime
Government; family; military;
Korean War
educational system
Ideologies
Conservatism; Liberalism;
Democratic Socialism;
Populism; Communism
Korean Confucianism (elitist,
anti-egalitarian, anti-
democratic); liberal democracy;
Democratic Socialism
Communism; Juche (through
self-reliance and a strong
independent state, true socialism
can be achieved)