Random lessons Philippine realpolitik teaches
One might think he was the Naked Emperor, telling many unbelievable things, thereby passing off projects carried over from the last administration as his to…
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Primer Pagunuran
Primer Pagunuran currently drafts his dissertation proposal on infrastructural policy via public private partnership for his Doctor of Public Administration. With a master’s in public policy at UP Diliman, he used to be the chief of staff of key legislators of the House of Representatives. At the Center for Integrative and Development Studies, he is part of the research team that begun seminal work on Philippine federalism. He has written in local and foreign journals and presented papers in international conferences. In between, he plays tennis, loves to travel, fends for birds, a dog and cat lover, a marksman, a widower.
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Running on unregulated crowdsourcing, anyone? (1)
Early political advertising in whatever way, shape or form must be checked and curtailed. Signifying one’s desire in an unofficial or informal way ought to be…
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Statecraft: Who’s doing the con?
Recall that FM Jr. got his presidential victory on a twosome, or what his sister, Sen. Imee Marcos, rightfully described as a ‘marriage in heaven.’
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Conviction threshold’s two-way verification process
At no time and no person with typical reverence for the constitutional text ought to change 24 as the starting number, the independent variable in this case.
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What midyear poll surveys reflect
By every interpretive analysis, it simply means that Sara’s apparent lead is still vulnerable or surmountable precisely because, clearly, as President, FM Jr.…
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All rise for amici curiae (2)
No amount of erudition, mastery of law or high-sounding rhetoric could supplant what is within the ordinary man’s experience when, in a plebiscite held for the…
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All rise for the amici curiae (1)
In math, it is the ‘bottom number in a fraction that shows the total number of equal parts making up a whole.’ In this case, 24 is the whole and the…
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Political control of bureaucracy
Over time, not only has the political ecosystem changed but more so the legal architecture — where a mere bureau has risen way above the line department it…
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If convicted, then what?
By any stretch, it’s not just Sara who’s on trial, particularly so where a conviction would result in not just her removal but her perpetual disqualification…
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