Dynasty pathogens
Numerous studies show political dynasties, optimizing their power and wealth, are superbugs in our body politic, doing things they are supposedly forbidden to…
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Numerous studies show political dynasties, optimizing their power and wealth, are superbugs in our body politic, doing things they are supposedly forbidden to…
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The Philippines has elevated impunity into an art form, aided by a weaponized legal system and an electorate acclimated to mediocrity.
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The CBCP backs an anti-political dynasty law after the Supreme Court directed Congress to enforce the constitutional ban on political dynasties.
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Each year of legislative inaction allows political inequalities, patronage and other problems associated with concentrated political power to persist.
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Carpio also said he and other advocates would pursue a people’s initiative to enact what he called a genuine anti-political dynasty law.
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The Supreme Court directs Congress to enact an anti-political dynasty law, ruling that the legislature has a mandatory constitutional duty under Article II,…
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The Supreme Court has ordered Congress to enact an anti-political dynasty law, ruling that its 39-year failure to fulfill the constitutional mandate amounted…
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Nobel laureate Mancur Olson argued that prosperity depends on secure property and contract rights protected from predation from within and without.
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At their core, the two high-profile officials share a common thread: both appear to have fallen outside the President’s protective political orbit.
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A conviction could remove Sara Duterte from office and dramatically reshape the political landscape, but it could also deepen the polarization.
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History is filled with instances of former presidents being prosecuted and imprisoned when a hostile successor takes office. This is where the problem and fear…
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The President should make this the defining political reform of his administration — and begin with a personal sacrifice.
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By accurately pinning down some of our reprehensible political leaders as kleptocrats we’ll be better off. Calling them merely corrupt is too kind and cuddly.
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Why don’t our politicians really eliminate poverty? Because poverty serves a purpose — for them. Poverty gives them power.
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Dysfunctional governance is an anachronism in public administration as a modernizing field, albeit ‘wicked’ is the term used in the lingua franca.
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Kim Keon Hee is already serving a four-year sentence for stock manipulation and bribery.
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