Publications - Philippines Institute

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.

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”.

This chapter argues that the executive-legislative relationship in Indonesia and the Philippines has changed in recent years.

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.

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 presents a new framework for analyzing variation in patronage democracies, focusing on distinct forms of patronage and different networks through which it is distributed.

This article examines the increasingly gray area between trolls, buzzers and disinformation, and their increasing relationship to political elites in the Philippines and Indonesia.

This report aims to summarize trends of election-related disinformation in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, offering a regional assessment of current practices in social media manipulation.