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Courts and authoritarian populism in Asia:Reflections from Indonesia and the Philippines
This article argues that fragile control over courts in the Philippines and Indonesia provides opportunities to resist encroachment by the executive and allows them to reassert their independence.
Dressel_Inoue_Bonoan_Justice and Political Loyalties
This article investigates determinants of the Philippine Supreme Court’s behavior since the country’s return to democracy in 1987, with particular attention to “loyalty effects”.
President Democracies - Dressel & Susilo
This chapter argues that the executive-legislative relationship in Indonesia and the Philippines has changed in recent years.
Strong-Arming, Weak Steering: Central-Local Relations in the Philippines in the Era of the Pandemic
This article arguments that strong-arming is no substitute for effective central steering - whether in responding to this crisis or to other crises that may emerge in the future.
Tanyag_A Murderous Plague
This article examines state hypermasculinity as a main atrocity risk factor and as a root cause of preventable deaths arising from failures in pandemic response in the case of the Philippines.
Mobilizing for Elections - Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia
Mobilizing for Elections presents a new framework for analyzing variation in patronage democracies, focusing on distinct forms of patronage and different networks through which it is distributed.