Continuity, history, and identity: Why Bongbong Marcos won the 2022 Philippine Presidential Election

• Main Authors: DULAY, Dean C., HICKEN, Allen, MENON, Anil, HOLMES, Ronald
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: 2022 Philippine elections; authoritarianism; democratization; ethnic voting; Ferdinand Marcos; historical memory; Philippines; Rodrigo Duterte; Asian Studies; Political History; Political Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3744; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5002/viewcontent/BBM_PacificAffairs_sv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In May of 2022, Bongbong Marcos won a commanding 59 percent of the vote to become president of the Philippines. His victory was, on some level, shocking to scholars and analysts of Philippine politics. As a result, a plethora of different theories have been proposed, in an attempt to explain why Mar...