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11 sty 2020 · This article explores social policy reforms championed by the Philippines’ strongman president Rodrigo Duterte during his first three years in office (2016–19), as a case for examining the transforma...
principles on Philippine politics, law, government, constitution, and spirituality of social transformation. These topics are indeed broad and one book for this would surely be not enough
The discussion in this article contributes to the literature on post-authoritarian constitutionalism in the Philippines specifically and that on the challenges of transformative constitutionalism more generally. It also has implications for constitutional design in transitional democracies.
the Philippines must start with the recognition of the crucial conse-quences of the Hispano-American colonial legacies, past and present American funding practices, the talents and caprices of a few American social scientists, and present Philippine socio-political restraints. Consequently, sociology in the Philippines today manifests certain
26 cze 2020 · This time, like in the Marcos era, the Philippines needs civil society formations that are self-organized, voluntary, self-generating, genuinely autonomous from the state, and able to articulate the public interest, bound by a legal order or a set of shared rules.
30 sty 2019 · It finds that happiness negatively predicts trust in the central government and the legal system, while all other predictors do not have a significant effect. The findings also show that the ...
emphasis on human agency; of a Marx-Weber model of society; and of a macro-micro nexus that combines micro theories emphasizing the contingency of the social order and centrality of individual negotiations with a focus on structures. Sociologists in the Philippines are open to these developments and have been quick to incorporate them in the ...