Book Launch: Patronage Democracy in the Philippines

Join the launch and book talk for Patronage Democracy in the Philippines: Clans, Clients, and Competition in Local Elections on April 25th at 4:00 p.m., PH time. This timely event will discuss the persistence of political patronage in local power relations and electoral dynamics in the Philippines. 

Register here: bit.ly/MH-Apr25

Edited by Julio C. Teehankee and Cleo Anne A. Calimbahin, the book documents how patronage takes different forms and flows through clientelistic and clan networks that are very much alive in local politics. 

Joining the editors in this conversation are chapter authors Aries A. Arugay, Mary Joyce Borromeo-Bulao, and Louie C. Montemar, and Paul D. Hutchcroft, who wrote the Foreword. Journalist Bambina Olivares will host and moderate this event.

This event is presented by the Ateneo University Press in partnership with Manila House. 

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Julio C. Teehankee is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the De La Salle University (DLSU), where he served as Chair of the Political Science Department (1994–2007); Chair of the International Studies Department (2008–2013); and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts (2013–2017). In 2020, he became a Distinguished Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) at Kyoto University. He appears regularly as a political analyst for local and international media outlets and on his YouTube channel, “Talk Politics with Julio Teehankee.”

Cleo Anne A. Calimbahin is an Associate Professor at the Political Science Department of the De La Salle University (DLSU). Before joining DLSU, she was the Global South Scholar in Residence at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Developing Economies–Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO) in Japan. Dr. Calimbahin is a Fellow at the Social Weather Stations (SWS) and a Research Fellow at the Asia Pacific Pathways to Progress Foundation, Inc. (APPFI). Her publication and research interests include elections, corruption, and democracy studies.

Paul Hutchcroft is a scholar of comparative and Southeast Asian politics who has written extensively on Philippine politics and political economy. He is a professor in the Department of Political and Social Change at the Australian National University and was from 2009 to 2013 the founding Director of the School of International, Political and Strategic Studies (since renamed the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs) in the ANU’s College of Asia and the Pacific. From 2013 to 2017, Hutchcroft was based in the Philippines as Lead Governance Specialist with the Australian aid program.

Aries A. Arugay is Professor of Political Science at the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman. His research interests include comparative democratization, civil-military relations, security governance, and foreign policy. He has published in the Philippine Political Science Journal, American Behavioral Scientist, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Asian Perspective, and Journal of East Asian Studies, among others. He is also editor-in-chief of Asian Politics & Policy, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell and the Policy Studies Organization. In 2020, the National Academy of Science and Technology awarded him as Outstanding Young Scientist for his achievements in political science research.

Mary Joyce Borromeo-Bulao is Chairperson of the Social Sciences Department of the Ateneo de Naga University. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of the Philippines and master’s degree in Political Science from the De La Salle University.

Louie C. Montemar is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) in Sta. Mesa, Manila. He also serves as Education Fellow at the Stratbase ADR Institute for Strategic and International Studies (ADRi). Prior to these, he was Lecturer at De La Salle University (DLSU) and a Research Fellow at the Jesse M. Robredo Institute of Governance (JRIG). He has done research on education and national development, local governance and community development, and issues in science and society.

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