Originally posted at http://josephonperspectives.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/remove-the-6040-equity-limitations-against-foreign-investments/ At this point, talk about constitutional amendments on certain provisions especially the economic ones of the 1987 Constitution has resurfaced once again as Juan Ponce Enrile suggested to amend the...
Overview We all know that media piracy is a sin against the Seventh Commandment by violating intellectual property license agreements and never giving compensation to the copyright owners for use of media licenses. We...
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The Forum of Federations is an international organization based in Ottawa, Canada. The Forum and its partners comprise a global network on Federalism. It brings together elected officials, civil servants and experts in federalism from...
Several Filipino politicians have recently said that the Philippine Government should not talk at all about Constitutional Reform and should – according to them – focus purely on the COVID-19 pandemic and crisis. But...
It’s about time the Philippines and all Filipinos started thinking straight regarding the Sabah issue and understanding that the most important part of the Sabah issue is what the People of Sabah themselves think...
[spacer height=”20px”] Many of the anti-reform naysayers who do not have an evil vested interest in maintaining the status quo tend to go against procedural systemic reforms such as shifting from the Presidential System...
The late founding Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, had been invited by the Philippine Business Conference to address them back on November 18, 1992, not long after he had already stepped down...
by Dr. Jan Erk Dr. Jan Erk previously taught political science at Leiden University until September 2016. Prior to his departure, Jan Erk published his MOOC ‘Federalism and Decentralization: Evaluating Africa’s Track Record’. Currently,...
by the late Dr. Juan J. Linz As more of the world’s nations turn to democracy, interest in alternative constitutional forms and arrangements has expanded well beyond academic circles. In countries as dissimilar as...
ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION 1. Ano ang ibig sabihin ng pag-alis sa probisyong 60/40 sa ating Saligang Batas ng 1987? Ito ay ang pagbura ng Article 12 Sections 9 to 11 at iba pang mga probisyon...
The Federal-Parliamentary System is Preferable to a Federal-Presidential System: Sticking to the Presidential System may worsen Philippine Politics (This article came out of the book “Quest for a Federal Republic: The PDP-Laban Model of...
by Juan J. Linz (July 1985) INTRODUCTION In recent decades renewed efforts have been made to study and understand the variety of political democracies, but most of those analyses have focused on the patterns of political conflict...
(Lecture given by Dr. Negasso Gidada, Former President of the FDRE, for a group from University of Maryland as part of UMD Study Abroad- Ethiopia 2015: University of Maryland Program in Ethiopia: The Policy and Politics of...
by Geoffrey de Q. Walker (Professor Emeritus from the University of Queensland) (This article was originally taken from the Parliament of Australia website) The new `age of federalism’ Worldwide interest in federalism is probably stronger...
Back in the 1980’s there was an extremely popular TV show called Knight Rider. It featured a crime-fighter with a talking car named KITT, short for “Knight Industries Two-Thousand.” KITT was a high-tech Pontiac...
Winnie Monsod was being preposterous when she chided those individuals who rejected posts in Duterte’s cabinet because of the paltry pay. To paraphrase her, she said that they should not even be thinking about...
Of all the most important systemic and fundamental constitutional reforms that must be implemented in order to improve the Philippines, Federalism is the reform that has the most solid support among most ordinary Filipinos....
An insightful CoRRECTor, Louis Gerard del Rosario wrote a very good status update: Yes, a parliamentary system is a hard sell to many Filipinos, because it does not allow direct election of the head of...
These days, when you think about Singapore, you imagine a photo of the “three buildings with a boat on top.” If you have friends who have been to Singapore, they prove that they visited...
Why Both Roles Should Be Separate, Especially in the Philippine Setting I am no political scientist and I don’t claim to be one now in writing this. I am writing this based on my...
This old article from 27 April 2006 by Alex Magno emphasizes that Mahathir bin Mohamad of Malaysia and the late Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore could only emerge from the electoral mechanisms of a...
by Erwin S. Fernandez Abung na Panagbasay Pangasinan (House of Pangasinan Studies) Although José Rizal and Andrés Bonifacio met on some points in their politics, they diverged from their concepts of Philippine nation and...
*This was taken from a status update of a foreigner. Names withheld and disguised to protect their privacy. So, tonight after some grocery shopping, my personal assistant named Pilar asked me if I could...
After the recent revelations of the pork barrel scam, the patronage politics exposed during the Typhoon Yolanda Tragedy and the privileged speech revelations in Senate , it strikes me that the Government of the Philippines...
Note: This was originally a status update from FB that went viral. We were able to get permission to publish it from the lady who was able to speak with several survivors of Super-Typhoon...
Noong ika – pito ng buwan ng Nobyembre ng taong 2013, ang Republika ng Pilipinas ay nakaranas ng hagupit ng isang malakas na bagyo na may pangalang local na “Yolanda” at pangalang internasyonal na...
The writing is on the wall: “P-Noy” is losing support. As a result of the wrath of Typhoon Yolanda (aka “Haiyan”), Philippine President B.S. Aquino III has been exposed to the rest of the...
Once upon a time, there was an American Peace Corps volunteer named Sam. Sam was a nice, good-natured 29 year old White Anglo-Saxon American guy who stood tall at 6 ft 7′ and enjoyed...
The recent US Federal Government Shutdown has further proven to everyone around the World that the Presidential System is an extremely unreliable, buggy, flawed, and faulty system of government whose proneness to gridlock has...
I believe: This is a CoRRECT™ Video with a very positive message
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