You are cordially invited to a CSEAS Tonan Talk, a Brown Bag lecture series. The talk is open to the public, and you can bring your lunch bag to the place. The details are as follows.

Title: Can the Philippines’ Wild Oligarchy Be Tamed?
Speaker: Dr. Nathan Gilbert Quimpo, Associate Professor in political
science and international relations, University of Tsukuba
Date: June 16 (Mon.), 12.00-13.30, 2014
Place: Tonan tei (Room No. 201), Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University

Abstract:
This chapter examines how the dominance of the oligarchic elite has
affected the quality of the Philippines’ post-Marcos democracy and what
the prospects are for the ‘wild oligarchy’ to be tamed. It is argued
that the oligarchic elite, through their use of material power, public
office and coercive power, have brought about poor-quality democracy
(particularly weak in rule of law and accountability) and recurring
instability. Reform efforts by President Benigno Aquino III are far from
sufficient in restraining the oligarchic elite from pathological
excesses, and can still be reversed under a new government headed by a
traditional politician-oligarch.

About the speaker:
Nathan Gilbert Quimpo teaches political science and international
relations at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. He is the author of
Contested Democracy in the Philippines after Marcos (Yale University
Southeast Asia Studies, 2008) and the co-author of Subversive Lives: A
Family Memoir of the Marcos Years (Anvil Press, 2012). His research
interests include democracy and democratic governance, conflict and
peace, political corruption, and security studies. He has also taught at
the University of the Philippines, University of Amsterdam and Sophia
University (Tokyo).

Moderator: Yasuyuki KONO and Lisandro Elias CLAUDIO,
CSEAS, Kyoto University

This Tonan Talk is supported by “Southeast Asian Studies for Sustainable Humanosphere” Research Program, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University
 

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