The CoRRECT™ Three Point Agenda
The CoRRECT™ Three Point Agenda was conceptualized as a comprehensive but simple solution that acts as a first enabling step that helps facilitate a lot of other important reforms. Here are the three points...
Author: Orion
Eight Points in Enlightening the Élite
[Note: This article was originally published in Get Real Philippines, and was first published by Orion Pérez Dumdum on April 26, 2003.] * * * This article is included in the www.correctphilippines.org site because...
Problems of Presidentialism & the US Exception
by Fred W. Riggs, PhD (1917-2008) This is a draft for the text published as “Conceptual Homogenization of a Heterogeneous Field: Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective,” in Mattei Dogan and Ali Kazancigil, eds. Comparing Nations: Concepts,...
Sen. Claro M. Recto on the Presidential System
The late Senator Claro M. Recto, president of the 1934 Constitutional Convention which drafted the 1935 charter, describes the Philippine political system this way: “Our Constitution was frankly an imitation of the American charter....
Philippine Progress: Shift in Sports, Shift in System
(First published on antipinoy.com on July 7, 2010) At the time of this writing, millions of people around the world are obsessing about the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa and the noise...
Exposing Esposo
(This article is dedicated to the late William Esposo, a man who took it upon himself to expose his own ignorance in the field of economics and showed his true colors as being nothing...
2 Filipinos: A Football Legend & A Spanish Prime Minister
Part of the reluctance of Filipinos to try something different has often had to do with the primordial fear of the unknown. Once Filipinos are used to one way of doing things, shifting over...
The Parliamentary System Fits the Philippines
Among the “occupational hazards” of being an advocate for the Philippines’ eventual adoption of the parliamentary system is to be on the receiving end of irrational and unfounded charges that the Philippines is “unfit”...
Sen. Pangilinan & the Parliamentary System
Just before I published my recent essay that related the soccer versus basketball issue to the presidential versus parliamentary debate, a few statements made by Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan which appeared in the July...
