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May 27, 2018
By CZARINA MEDINA-GUCE This blog is first of a series that discusses parts of the working paper, “Democratic Backsliding and Shrinking Civic Spaces: Problematizing Philippine Democratic Institutions”, written by Czarina Medina-Guce and Ana Martha Galindes, released on February 26, 2018. The author will also discuss the paper in full in the Social Weather Stations Kapihan [...]
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May 22, 2018
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., SWS Knowledge Center Auditorium, Social Weather Stations. The paper discusses about how Philippine democracy is sliding back, its manifestations, and how the enablers of [...]
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Apr 19, 2018
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. Since the People Power Revolution in 1986, the Philippines became something of a beacon for democratic development in a region beset [...]
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Apr 14, 2018
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 series of four vlogs that discusses [1] the Open Data initiative, [2] the successes and challenges in its operationalisation in the Philippines, [3] [...]
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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…
Nov 16, 2017
By ATTY. JOEY MENDOZA Crisis and the challenge of staying the course with democracy Around the world, we see a growing global clamor for fundamental political and economic reform. Whether it goes by the name Arab Spring or Brexit, it is generally a clamor for change in the manner in which the ruling class [...]
