University of the Philippines, Diliman

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...

No other comparison on Philippine politicians is as aesthetically pleasing as being called “butterflies”. This is not to say they are graceful or...

China is flexing its military muscles like never before. As things stand, there seems to be no end in sight to tensions in the South China Sea....

Democratic Erosion (also known as Democratic Backsliding) is an unsettlingly prevalent phenomenon in which competitive elections are undermined,...