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: 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.,...
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…
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