"How Pinoy R U? Pag narinig mo ang mga salitang "Ponoy Ako," kanta lang ba ng Orange and Lemons ang naiisip mo? Kung ipinanganak ka sa isa sa mga 7,107 islands ng Perlas ng Silangan, Pinoy ka. O kahit na sa ibang bansa ka nagkamulat pero certified Filipinos ang parents mo, matatawag ka ding kalahi ni Jose Rizal at Manny Pacquiao. Pero what makes a person truely Pinoy? Ano ang mga distinct moral values na nagdedescribe kung sino nga ba tayo? Nagjoin forces sina Ronald at Rei para lang iexplain ang mechanics of being a true Filipino - sa isip, sa salita at sa gawa. At ang lahat nang ito ay nagsisimula sa puso."--Cover
Performing Philippine studies / J. Neil C. Garcia -- Ang sarili sa digma, ang digma sa sarili / Laurence Marvin S. Castillo -- Kung papaano umalpas sa panahon / Christian Jil R. Benitez -- Kung bakit mahalaga ang pangungulit sa nobela / Chuckberry J. Pascual -- Katawan ni Guillermo / U Z. Eliserio -- Ang operasyon, and aparisyon, at ang Pilipinang kalakal / Tilde Acuña -- Hamlet and his problems of politeness / Thomas David F. Chaves -- Magical metonymies / Dominic Paul Chow Sy -- Toward the unsurmountable you / Christian Jil R. Benitez -- In the age of anthropocene and CMICT / Raul Pertierra -- Translation and the problem of realism in Philippine literature in English / J. Neil C. Garcia
Transparency is a widely used concept in debates on international politics, from transnational anti-corruption campaigns to renewed requests for greater disclosure on health, finance, or even security issues. Calls for transparency date back at least to the League of Nations, when internationalists demanded open diplomacy. Yet, it is in the subfield of GEG, and its developments on nonstate actors as a key research topic (see introduction), where the practice and theory of transparency has made the most profound inroads (Gupta 2010a). GEG has been a particularly fertile ground for the development of informational governance (Mol 2008) and the rise of numerous transparency initiatives which have been analyzed in a rapidly developing literature. Importantly, current GEG research is also highly relevant for other IR subfields. For one, recent GEG research can help IR scholars to further refine the concept of transparency and to increase conceptual clarity and sophistication. Second, research on GEG has improved our understanding of the factors that determine the effectiveness of transparency as a governance tool in international politics.
Political parties are often conceptualized as unitary actors that have consistent preferences. This 'hidden assumption' often turns out to overlook heterogeneity within parties and, therefore, intra-party dynamics in explaining attitudes. Concerning devolution and federalisation, parties or MP's belonging to the same region are also often implicitly considered as having homogeneous viewpoints and attitudes. Relying on an original MPs survey carried out during the Belgian political gridlock of 2010-2011, this article uncovers some of the key dimensions of the intra-party dynamics through the analysis of MPs' preferences towards institutional reform in Belgium. Far from being explained by party or community lines, our results demonstrate how MPs' political and sociological background, national/regional identity, political career and inter-community relations strongly shape their preferences.
Abstention is a key issue for any representative democracy. Turnout has a direct impact on the input legitimacy of the democratic system, but also eventually on the output legitimacy, that is on the policies that are designed and implemented. This issue has long sparked debate about the determinants of abstention in elections and its consequences both for politics and for policies. Yet, a multi-level approach is often missing. While the second-order elections theory has shown that different levels of elections mean different levels of turnout, it has been criticized theoretically for its so-called nationalist – i.e. in favor of national elections – bias and methodologically because it typically assesses elections not held on the same day. The last elections held in Belgium offer a fertile ground of investigation for multi-level abstention as the regional, federal and European elections were organized the very same day, under the rule of compulsory voting. This paper aims at presenting and discussing the real abstention rates at the three levels of elections, as well as for the local elections. The 2014 PartiRep voter survey offers an original way to explore the potential abstention – that is electoral participation in the absence of compulsory voting – as the respondents were not asked the typical single question about their potential electoral participation if compulsory voting was to be abolished, but a fourfold question asking them whether they would always, often, sometimes or never vote at the local, regional, federal and European elections. The results will show that there is a significant amount of the voters who would vote differently: 437 of them (22%) would always vote at one – level of – election, but not always at the other ones. The paper seeks to assess this potential multi-level abstention in light of socio-demographic and political (namely party) variables. This contribution will thus shed new light on the issue of abstention – both real and potential – in its multi-level dimension.
Issues and perspectives in theology and religious education -- The vision of Matthew / Ricardo M. Puno -- Christianity and culture in Asia / Jose M. de Mesa -- Pangangatawan, ang 'spirituality' sa kontekstong Pilipino / Jose M. de Mesa -- The interface of science and religion in the theology of Rosemary Radford Ruether / Dominador Bombongan, Jr. -- Explaining behavioral misconduct, an ecological framework / Ferdinand D. Dagmang -- The Lasallian youth, a study on belief, morals and social conscience / Jesusa Marco & Arnold Monera -- Empirical explorations, student constructs of suffering / Rito V. Baring -- The Catholic University and cosmopolitan ideals / Dominador Bombongan, Jr. -- The Catholic social teachings in the University, implications for Catholic education / Ferdinand D. Dagmang
The Red Devils, chocolate or beer and the King, such is the typical answers given to the oft-asked question of what is still holding Belgium together. To these three symbols, two extra elements are often added: the debt and Brussels, the capital of the country and of the Flemish Region/Community, the French Community (politically but not constitutionally the Wallonia-Brussels Federation), the European Union (to be more specific, one of the three capitals, along with Strasbourg and Luxemburg), while being as well the seat of the Brussels Capital Region. Generally, the list of factors of unity in Belgium ends with this short list. Is it already too long, or on the contrary, is it really too short? This is the main question of this chapter. Paradoxically, although this question often arises, there are very few scientific writings analyzing it. To do so, this chapter will discuss six sets of factors: historical, identity, socio-economic, political, international and symbolic. Nonetheless, it is important to take into account that such enterprise seeks to be informative and not prescriptive. This chapter does not assume that Belgium should be united. There are several points of view about what Belgium should be, and this contribution merely wishes to nurture the political debate by conveying an original approach on six types of factors.
This chapter explains the sociolinguistic differences between the two regions are important and have led to significantly contrasting language policies a contrast that can be observed at the level of specific political measures set up in each case, and also at the level of principles underlying state action regarding linguistic matters. Conversely, in Belgium, French has never been a low-status language, predominant in low-paid jobs, socially stigmatised as a patois or as a mixture of English and French typical of uneducated people as it was in Quebec from the end of the eighteenth century onwards. Progressively, the Flemish movement demanded political autonomy for cultural political matters, while the Walloon regionalist movement was interested in obtaining more autonomy in economic matters in times when Wallonia was still the most prosperous region of the country. The importance of French in the website presentations of each region for foreigners is very indicative of the role language plays in Quebec and in Wallonia.
Philippine anthology in a post-anthropology age / Michael L. Tan -- Philippine demography @ 44, continuing tradition of excellence in training and research in nation-building / Corazon M. Raymundo -- Pinoy English, a case of language drift / Jonathan C. Malicsi -- Political science, the discipline, the academe, and Philippine politics / Athene Lydia C. Casambre -- Ang Kasaysayan sa pagbuo ng sambayanan / Jaime B. Veneracion -- The geographical traditions and the reassertion of space in critical social theory and praxis / Meliton B. Juanico
