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Expanded Inclusion, Weakened Representation: The Partylist System Decline and Philippine Democratic Erosion

The Philippine partylist system in 2024, based on current composition alone, is a far cry from its incarnation in the late 1990s and early...

Antecedent to Leni Robredo’s declaration of her presidential candidacy in the 2022 Philippine elections, a vibrant pink becomes a beacon of hope...

Who would have thought that the term ‘change’ could undermine streamlining the bureaucratic process by growing the political division and...

Dubbed by analysts as the “most significant election in the Southeast Asian nation’s recent history”, the last 2022 national elections was the...

“Bagong Pilipinas, Bagong Mukha!”, (trans: New Philippines, New Face) the battle cry of the 2022 Marcos-Duterte campaign jingle echoed...

“Celebrity” in Philippine politics can manifest in more ways than one. Most notoriously, celebrity makes itself evident when film and television...

The United States has been facing political polarization since the early 1970s - but the uprise of technology, media, and freedom of expression...

With the grim results of Super Tuesday, we face the catastrophic choice between Trump, espousing authoritarian ideology, and Biden, a now...

Analyzing Democratic Backsliding in Narendra Modi’s India India is one of the world's most diverse and populated nations, with a revolutionary...