For #ScholarlySunday a series of links to interesting papers, books, and documents. 1. The passing of Chito Gascon, who was the youngest commissioner, points to this essential reference on the thinking behind our present charter: archive.org/details/record…
Sadly, there has been no account of the proceedings of the 1986 Constitutional Commission on the model of Aruego's work on the framing of the 1935 Constitution: archive.org/details/record…
As public opinion is fundamental to the rise and fall of governments, this special report makes for informative reading. sws.org.ph/swsmain/artcld…
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Final, final: this 2010 presentation by Mark Thompson remains a useful lens for viewing our elections and administrations: the fundamental division being between populists and reformists. scribd.com/presentation/3…#ScholarlySunday
An addition to the emerging literature on illiberalism in the Philippine context.
2. (Re)Assessing EDSA ‘People Power’ as a Critical Conjuncture by Rommel A . Curaming academia.edu/2147171/_Re_As…
I'd noted when Adrian Cristobal passed, that what Edsa had in common with the New Society was the idea thgat somehow society can be remade and reordered --and that this is desirable. So this paper's interesting.
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As I wrote some time ago, because of a six year presidential term with no reelection and because every administration has a fixed majority for its useful life, when that useful life ends, nearly everyone suddenly becomes opposition, which is why real oppositionists get edged out.
Since administrations more often than not have little effect on who replaces them, their energies are better spent strategically placing people in institutions like the SC to ensure persecution of them is ineffective: GMA was best at this. So-called machinery counts for little.
What happened: September 21-24 in newspapers. A thread. From Richard Wilhelm Beltran Ragodon. Why Marcos wanted you to forget what was actually happening on Sept. 21-23.
1. September 21, 1972. Manila Times, Taliba, and Daily Express.
What happened: September 21-24 in newspapers. A thread. From Richard Wilhelm Beltran Ragodon. Why Marcos wanted you to forget what was actually happening on Sept. 21-23.
2. September 22, 1972. Reporting what happened Sept. 21, including the rally. Manila Times, Taliba,
What happened: September 21-24 in newspapers. A thread. From Richard Wilhelm Beltran Ragodon.
3. September 23, 1972.
a. The Manila Times*
b. An explanation of how some issues came out before the paper was shut down.
c. The Manila Chronicle*
*shut down by Marcos
Today is the birth anniversary of The Great Dictator who’s enjoying a posthumous rehabilitation primarily through online revisionism. The generations that disowned him have come to discover new generations cultivated to admire him. A thread of readings on what this says about us.
A reflection, on the centennial of his birth, on his life story being the incarnation, in many ways, of his generation's resentments: his success was considered a validation of a particular Filipino way of thinking and doing. quezon.ph/2017/09/11/spo…
Prepping materials for (possibly) my first vlog; some slides I have often used in presentations as exceedingly useful in discussing what we think people think when we think of how they think through their votes, a thread.
1. From "Vote of the Poor," the characteristics of a bad leader/good leader and what people claim influences them most in deciding whom to vote for.
Ateneo study, "The Preferred Filipino Leader: How do our current leaders measure up?" A kind of word cloud of feelings. After all politics is about feelings.