How does an underground movement sustain contention when it cannot directly engage its opponents due to the risk of suffering state repression? While traditional organization and social movements find their strength in ...
On May 13, 2015 a huge fire broke out in Kentex Factory Manufacturing Industry in Ugong, Velanzuela City. The incident caused an uproar on the credibility of the local and national government in effectively implementing ...
Ang mga katutubong Ifugao na dating nagmula sa bayan ng Kordilyera ay bumaba sa Nueva Vizcaya ng Lambak Kagayan upang maghanap ng bagong oportunidad para sa mas maayos na kabuhayan. Sila ay bahagi ng Pambansang Minorya ng ...
Social media such as Facebook are widely integrated in the daily activities of individuals primarily for communications. In particular, migrant domestic workers use these platforms to communicate with their loved ones. ...
Literature on lobbying in general posits more gains if done as group than done individually, but because of voice amplification, not all groups are equal. While literature has much to say about lobbying in the formal sector, ...
Sa panahon bago ang Batas Militar ay nakita ang Malaybalay, Bukidnon bilang isang lugar na mapayapa at hitik sa mga likas na yaman kaya naman ay naging lugar ito ng mga migrante na nag-nais tumakas sa gera at iba pang ...
During his campaign for the 2016 Philippine presidential election, president Rodrigo Duterte crafted a political platform that would appeal to an electorate wishing for change. A major part of this platform is the Philippine ...
MMDA Resolution No. 02-28 (2002) strengthened the mandate of the Metropolitan Manila
Development Authority (MMDA), particularly its Metro Parkway Clearing Group (MPCG), to
clear streets, sidewalks, alleys, avenues, ...
Revolving on the central question of “How do textbooks used public and private schools exhibit and enforce the phenomenon of historical negationism regarding the Marcos-era martial law?”, this research topic aims to assess ...
How does ethnolinguistic culture affect the power structure here in the Philippines? This
paper aimed to answer this question by using the Province of Kalinga as its focus. The Province
of Kalinga is one of the few ...
This research examines how social media urges people into joining social media originated social movements. Repertoires of contention have been consistently evolving and the emergence of new modes of political mobilization ...
This study explored whether the 4Ps program elicits feelings of reciprocity similar to that in vote buying. CCTs have been criticized and compared to the practice of vote buying. The literature on conditional cash transfers ...
In 2012, the Aquino administration launched the health modernization program, a scheme to place various tertiary level hospitals and specialized centers under Public-Private Partnerships (PPP). PPPs are endorsed by the ...
There has been a rise in the incidence of women-headed households in Metro Manila.
This would not have been a problem if it were not for the fact that the Philippines is a
third-world country where women are vulnerable ...
Health significantly affects the political behavior of an individual yet the implications of mental health disorders, such as depression, on an individual’s political participation has yet to be explored. Depression is a ...
Despite being labelled as the most gay-friendly country in Asia and one of the most gay-friendly countries in the world, transgender women and transgender men in the Philippines still face a lot of challenges. One of the ...
In the Philippine transport sector, there are practices that hinder the full implementation of what we call decent work norms, or productive work opportunities that delivers fair income, workplace security and social ...
What happens when a populist head of state controls state foreign policy-making, and how does their populist style change in response to a transition of government in countries they rerceive as a threat? There have been ...
The Philippines is the first country in Asia and third in the world to establish a procedure to protect refugees and the stateless by creating a Refugees and Stateless Persons’ Protection Unit (RSPPU) under the "Inter-Agency ...
How does the understanding of resilience in the grassroots level affect thepeople’s perception and response towards Community-based Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (CBDRRM)? Drawing from Torgerson’s work on Public ...