Roundtable: Philippine Elections 2022

McCargo, Duncan; Espiritu, Talitha; Coronel, Sheila S.; Curato, Nicole; Claudio, Lisandro E.; Mendoza, Maria Elize H.; Ong, Jonathan Corpus; Rudd, Arild Engelsen; Endresen, Cecilie; Cristobal, Geronimo

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“…Most assessments of Philippine democracy concluded that the 2022 presidential election was legitimate and that the public mandate for President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Duterte's daughter, Vice President Sara Duterte, was reflective of public sentiment (McCargo 2022; Dulay et al 2023). The tandem has the distinction of being the first in the country's post-1986 democratization period to win an outright majority of nearly 60 per cent of the vote.…”

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Bowed, Bent, & Broken: Duterte's Assaults on Civil Society in the Philippines

Arugay,

Baquisal

2023

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

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The Philippines has historically been known to have one of the most robust and politically active civil societies in the world. With a deep affinity with democracy, civil society became a reliable bulwark against abuses of power and endemic corruption. However, it came under attack under the populist, illiberal Duterte administration (2016–2022) through intimidation, persecution, massive disinformation, and even outright violence. This article examines why Philippine civil society – despite its attempted pushback against democratic erosion – was generally neutralized by Duterte. Apart from its weakened state given polarizing elite conflicts in the 2000s, Duterte engaged in executive assaults against civil society through the four strategies of exploiting divisions within civil society; securitizing public; regulating civic space to weed out opposition voices; and controlling the media environment. This article concludes by examining the implications of a weakened civil society and prospects for its reinvigoration under a restored Marcos dynasty, which won the 2022 Philippine presidential elections.

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Bowed, Bent, & Broken: Duterte's Assaults on Civil Society in the Philippines

Arugay,

Baquisal

2023

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

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Landscaping gender, sexuality, and hope in the 2022 Philippine presidential elections

2024

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This paper investigates the Linguistic Landscape (LL) of Leni Robredo’s 2022 presidential campaign rallies in the Philippines and explores the role of gender and sexuality in constructing prefigurative spaces within the offline-online nexus. Through artifacts used during the campaign, the paper examines how Robredo supporters utilize semiotic resources and intertextual references from popular and meme culture as well as LGBTQ+ media to adopt stances vis-à-vis gender and sexuality. The paper suggests that the aggregation of these stances elicit affects that facilitate a prefigurative genderscape where participants enact an ethos of hope. While these practices cannot completely transcend entrenched forms of power (e.g., macho populism and dynastic democracy), they materialize a potential future characterized by a people-driven movement. The paper proposes a future direction for LL studies: engaging prefigurative politics in the examination of the emergent spaces that respond to increasing precarity and sociopolitical upheavals.

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Winners always cheat? Regional identity and the myth of a rigged 2022 Philippine presidential election

Rye

2024

Asian Journal of Comparative Politics

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This article draws its analysis from the results of an assessment conducted in October 2022 of the May 2022 presidential election. The 2022 presidential election in the Philippines is an historical turning point not only for marking the return of the Marcos family to the country's highest office but also due to the initial claim of electoral fraud that raised concerns about the integrity of automated polling in the country. In the context of the May 2022 election, our findings do not identify any clear demographic pattern linked to a lack of confidence or skepticism regarding the credibility of the election results. Instead, compelling evidence indicates that the belief in a rigged election is limited to a specific subset of voters aligned with the geographical support base of a defeated presidential candidate. The findings contribute to nuancing electoral dynamics in the Philippines in a number of ways. First, they dispel the myth of an impaired election floated by media and other international watchdogs immediately after the election. Second, the suggest that as citizens navigate their democratic responsibilities, their regional identity becomes a lens through which the fairness, transparency, and legitimacy of the electoral system are ultimately contested.

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Roundtable: Philippine Elections 2022

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Bowed, Bent, & Broken: Duterte's Assaults on Civil Society in the Philippines

Bowed, Bent, & Broken: Duterte's Assaults on Civil Society in the Philippines

Landscaping gender, sexuality, and hope in the 2022 Philippine presidential elections

Winners always cheat? Regional identity and the myth of a rigged 2022 Philippine presidential election

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