A clear casualty here is the ruling Lakas-Kampi-CMD party what with all the defections, internal wranglings about the lack of campaign funds, and a lot of talk about the First Couple’s “secret candidate(s)”.
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Lakas’ woes
Posted: April 16, 2010 in 2010 elections, Dick Gordon, Edu Manzano, Erap, FVR, Gibo Teodoro, GMA, Jose de Venecia, Kampi, Lakas Kampi CMD, Lito Lapid, Partido ng Masang Pilipino, Philippine politics, Political philosophy, Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr., Reforma, Renato de Villa0
‘People power’ reconsidered
Posted: April 5, 2010 in Cory Aquino, Erap, Ferdinand Marcos, FVR, GMA, governance, Philippine politics, Political institutions, Political philosophy, reformSome twenty-four odd years after the ‘people power’ revolution of EDSA in the Philippines, the country’s democracy is still in trouble and illustrates the continuing problems of cosmetic change with unrevised socio-economic structure. The Philippines’ predicament mimics many of the post-authoritarian regimes created by the third and fourth waves of democratization.
Political elites and political leadership
Posted: March 18, 2010 in Political philosophyTags: Anthony Downs, Aristotle, Hobbes, Lenin, Locke, Machiavelli, Michels, Mosca, Nietzsche, Pareto, Plato, Rousseau, Stalin
The concerns with political elites and leadership is as old as political philosophy. Ancients like Plato grappled with the question–who should rule and why should they be obeyed?
