David Wurfel

David Omer Drury Wurfel, who died on November 12, 2012, was a political scientist with a strong and enduring interest in agrarian policy and political development in east and south-east Asia.

Prof. Wurfel’s last published paper appeared in the December 2012 issue of the Philippines Political Science Journal, and can be read here.

About this site

This site contains published and unpublished academic writings of Professor David Wurfel (1929-2012), with particular emphasis on his research on Philippine agrarian policy from the early 1950s onwards.

You can read David’s curriculum vitae here, and an autobiographical essay here.

The Philippine Rice Share Tenancy Act 1954/06
Agrarian Reform in the Republic of Vietnam 1957/01
Philippine Agrarian Reform under Magsaysay 1959/02
Foreign Aid and Social Reform in Political Development: A Philippine Case Study 1959/06
Trade Union Development and Labor Relations Policy in the Philippines 1959/07
The Violent and the Voiceless in Japanese Politics 1960/11
Memo to vice-president-elect Emmanuel Pelaez, 1961 1961/12
Magsaysay and the Philippine Peasantry (review) 1962/02
The Philippine Elections: Support for Democracy 1962/05
Okinawa: Irredenta on the Pacific 1962/12
A Changing Philippines 1964/02
Prospects for Democracy in Japan 1966/03
The Philippines: Intensified Dialogue 1967/01
The Saigon Political Elite: Focus on Four Cabinets 1967/08
Preliminary Report on the 1967 Elections 1967/09
The United States in Vietnam (review) 1968/02
Vietnam Negotiations: Where They Are and Where They May Be Headed 1970/10
The Philippine Agrarian Crisis 1972/12
Southeast Asian alignments 1974/06
Nationalism, Development And Democracy: Foundations Of Philippine Foreign Policy 1975/07
Martial Law in the Philippines: The Methods of Regime Survival 1977/03
Philippine Agrarian Policy Today: Implementation and Political Impact 1977/05
The Political Consequences of Land Reform in Southeast Asia 1977/05
Elites of Wealth and Elites of Power, the Changing Dynamic: A Philippine Case Study 1979/06
The Development of Post-War Philippine Land Reform: Political and Sociological Explanations 1983/03
The Aquino Legacy and the Emerging Succession Struggle In The Philippines, 1984 1985/06
The Political Economy of Debt, Succession and Revolutionary Movements in the Philippines 1985/11
Japan-Philippine Relations: Economic and Cultural Determinants of Mutual Images in an Unequal Cooperative Dyad 1986/03
Report to the United Church of Canada on a trip to Vietnam, May 1986 1986/05
Land Reform: Contexts, Accomplishments and Prospects under Marcos and Aquino 1989/03
What Chance for Peace in Indo-China? 1989/03
The Philippines' precarious democracy: coping with foreign and domestic pressures under Aquino 1989/06
State and Society in the Philippines: Capacity and Autonomy in Rural Areas 1989/11
Canadian Aid, Social Change and Political Conflict in the Philippines--Prospects for Conflict Resolution 1989/11
Philippine Foreign Policy 1990/03
Elites and Agrarian Reform in the Philippines 1991/02
Toward an Alternative Land Reform Paradigm (review) 1991/11
Cambodia: Celebration and Foreboding 1992/01
Change or Continuity in the Philippines? 1992/12
“Land Reform” for the Elite: “Voluntary offers to sell” under C.A.R.P. 1993/03
Change and Continuity in Vietnamese Villages: The Consequences of Decollectivation 1994/09
The Anti-Marcos Struggle (review) 1996/06
The Party-list System: Sectoral or National? Success or Failure? 1997/10
Vietnam revisited 1998/01
Memorandum to Canada-Asia Working Group: Mining and the Marinduque Environment 1998/03
Between China and ASEAN: The Dialectics of Recent Vietnamese Foreign Policy 1999/07
Booty Capitalism: The Politics of Banking in the Philippines 1999/08
Human Security in East Timor? Xanana’s Leadership 1999/10
Philippine Agrarian Institutions in Transition 2000/07
Les Philippines : une démocratie hésitante dans le contexte international 2001/09
Democracy, Nationalism, and Ethnic Identity: The Philippines and East Timor Compared 2004/03
Autobiography (Part 1) 2008/12
Doing Political Science in the Philippines 2012/12
Curriculum vitae 2017/05