by Sophia Wotman | Dec 5, 2024 | Brown University
He used methods of intimidation and subverted the rule of law to attack his political enemies. He played the “strong man” to weaken institutional mechanisms and checks against his authority. He frequently made inappropriate and crass remarks and threatened to pull his...
by Anna Thorner | Jun 25, 2024 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
by Julian Matthew Formadero and Lance Carlo Mendoza In May 2016, with 16 million votes, the Philippines elected Rodrigo Duterte as its 16th president. The foul-mouthed former mayor of Davao, who was a virtual nobody just a year prior, won on a promise of eradicating...
by Julian Matthew Formadero | May 24, 2024 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
More than 50 trade unionists have been killed in the Philippines since Rodrigo Duterte came to power, according to a 2022 report by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), a global trade union body. While trade union work is no glamorous job, it is simply...
by Ryan Leung | Feb 4, 2022 | University of Chicago
In his piece entitled “Stealth Authoritarianism”, Ozan Vogel defines stealth authoritarianism as when the president or executive uses legal mechanisms that exist in stable democracy for anti-democratic purposes. Vogel describes several instances of stealth...
