This study seeks to (1) identify the factors for the continuing dominance and apparent resilience of local political clans amid socio-economic and political transformations in the post-EDSA I period, (2) describe the dynamics of elite reproduction and legislative recruitment in congressional politics, underscoring the House of Representatives as an institutional nexus between local and national politics, and (3) present a profile of the new generation of elected elites in congress, particularly the children of House members who were prevented from seeking
reelection due to the constitutional provision on term limits.
