Platforming Populism: The Services Transition, Precarious Urbanization, and Digital Platforms in the Rise of Illiberal Populism in the Philippines

• Main Authors: Cruz, Jerik, De La Cruz, Emille
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2023
• Subjects: growth models; illiberal populism; Philippines; Platform economy; premature deindustrialisation; services transition; Economics; Labor Economics; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Urban Studies and Planning
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/economics-faculty-pubs/204; https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsad012
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Existing research on the adverse impact of digital platforms on democratic politics has generally focussed on supply side factors underlying illiberal populism. Yet by reinforcing a services-led growth model of capitalism in the developing world, the platform economy has also been implicated on the...