by Patricia Villa | May 25, 2018 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
The erosion of Philippine democracy has set a new stage of opportunity for resistance movements to seize. Indeed, the country is in another “extraordinary time”. What could the role of the National Democratic Left (ND) be in the fight against democratic erosion? The...
by Minch | May 18, 2018 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
Duterte’s authoritarian tendencies cannot be plainly framed as symptomatic of the changing times. His exercise of democracy, that is occasionally illiberal, is a product of the confluence of three sources of causal mechanisms – complex interactions among...
by Michael Manangu | May 12, 2018 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
On April 17, 2019, Indonesia will hold its presidential and local elections simultaneously for the first time in history. The presidential election will likely be a rematch of 2014, a highly competitive race which pitted two outsider populists: Jakarta governor,...
by Patricia Villa | May 12, 2018 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
To what extent should impeachments be exercised in democracies? South Korea and the Philippines offer two opposing answers. In a Washington Post op-ed, Christian Caryl argued that South Korea had just shown the world how democracy is done via the historic decision of...
by stotomas.michelleanne@gmail.com | May 1, 2018 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
The purpose of hegemony of Antonio Gramsci to originally create discourse on the domination of the ruling elites to preserve power and control has evolved to how mass media have been used to cater to this purpose. The more complex lens however is how media...
