Weak state, strong presidents: Situating the Duterte presidency in Philippine political time

• Main Author: Teehankee, Julio C.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2016
• Subjects: Philippines. President (2016-2022 : Duterte); Rodrigo Roa Duterte, 1945-; Presidents—Philippines; Philippines—Politics and government—1986-; Political Science
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/354
• Institution: De La Salle University

The Philippine presidency is the first and most durable in Asia. As a political institution, it has been rendered enough constitutional power to have a formal semblance of a “strong presidency” but apparently not enough to totally control strategic interests in Philippine society. Applying the conce...