By: Cleve Arguelles In Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippines, fears of further democratic backsliding have dominated conversations among democracy advocates. To counter this backslide, civil society groups and democrats are experimenting with strategies on responding...
By: Maxine Tanya Hamada. This article first appeared in World Movement for Democracy. The most beautiful and powerful movements in history are born out of pain, sorrow, anger, and fear. In 1986, Filipinos were reeling from a...
By: Cleve Arguelles In Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippines, fears of further democratic backsliding have dominated conversations among democracy advocates. To counter this backslide, civil society groups and democrats are experimenting with strategies on responding...
By: Cleve Arguelles Two years into the polarizing presidency of Rodrigo Duterte, the rising number of dead bodies as a result of his war on illegal drugs has now become a regular news...
By: Czarina Medina-Guce For many months now, there is increasing talk of ‘challenges’ and ‘attacks’ to Philippine democracy. Deaths attributed to the war on drugs cannot be moved to the courts, as case build-up...
iLEAD Executive Director Czarina Medina-Guce will be presenting the working paper, “Democratic Backsliding: Problematizing the Strengthening of Philippine Democratic Institutions” at the “Kapihan sa SWS” on May 30, 2018, Wednesday, 4:00 p.m.,...
By: Paul Rothman, Assistant Partnerships Officer at the Center for International Media Assistance in Washington, DC. This article first appeared in Center for International Media Assistance. The last two years have been a tumultuous period for Filipino democracy....
iLEAD fellow Richard “Bon” Moya, one of the pioneers of Open Data in the Philippines, shares his insights on open movement and how it has been helping democracies in the world. This is a...
This working paper problematizes the challenges to Philippine democracy through the lens of its democratic institutions. The paper argues the existence of democratic backsliding, which happens when a nominally democratic…
By: Darwin Mariano There is something fake about the charter change conversation in the Duterte era. While certainly not new – the Ramos, Estrada and Arroyo administrations all tried to change the 1987...
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