Abstract Trump of the East, Duterte Harry, the bastard child of Philippine democracy—these
are some of what ways in which Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has been depicted by …

After his landslide electoral victory in 2016, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte started a
violent war on drugs that has led to at least 5,000 “drug suspects” being killed by the police …

Since the late 1980s, Filipino entertainment television has assumed and maintained a
dominance in national popular culture, which expanded in the digital era. The media …

Abstract South-East Asia is suffering a rapid deterioration of the free press and Freedom of
expression. According to the last report of Freedom in the World 2021, in the last few years …

When a presidential contender makes a joke about lusting over a dead Australian
missionary, one could expect that this candidate would not go very far; but not in the year …

Current discussions of populism often reduce it to the actions and rhetoric of individuals
(Jansen 2011, 2015; Weyland 2001). Such simplifications ignore the concrete and …

Celebrity influencers are increasingly central to political discourse as they engage in, and
get engaged with, on matters of electoral importance. In this paper, using Twitter data from …

The success of the maverick politician Rodrigo Duterte in the 2016 election is cited as a
result of the weaponization of social media—whereby professional, tech-savvy strategists …

This Element argues that relational policy analysis can provide deeper insights into the
career of any policy and the dynamics of any policy situation. This task is all the more difficult …

This article contributes a new layer to the existing analyses of Duterte's foreign policy by
arguing that he epitomized a transactionalist approach to Philippine foreign policy. This …